Biometric systems are ubiquitous: Whether facial recognition software in public spaces or fingerprint sensors on our smartphones. Biometric systems are mainly used for various forms of access control: privacy protection, national borders or even various borders within public space. This regulates questions such as: Who has access to what information? Who is allowed to go/stay where?

The manual deals with different ways of tricking biometric systems. This may involve making one’s own biometric characteristics unrecognizable or attacking biometric systems. Since biometric systems can be a means of surveillance and control, among other things, this handbook is intended as a contribution to reflection on and criticism of these systems.

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