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Daniel Leix Palumbo

Research Fellow

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Daniel Leix Palumbo is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies and the Department of Language, Technology & Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He researches the development, promotion and use of voice biometric technology for country determination in asylum eligibility assessments.

As a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute, he works on his current study entitled “Historicising voice biometrics: the colonial continuity of listening, from the sound archive to the acoustic database’’. In this study, he investigates border authorities’ outsourcing of the processes of data work necessary to develop and refine voice biometrics’ language models. While looking through ethnographic work at the contexts where data is produced and the actors involved, he situates the foundation of these outsourced processes in continuity with a longer colonial history of European sound archives and listening techniques.

His PhD project is funded by the NWO “PhDs in the Humanities’’ grant and previous work connected to this project has been published in the journal Big Data & Society and the anthology “Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday’’ by Amsterdam University Press.

Research Group: Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics (06.01. - 28.02.2025)

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Reichsuniversität Groningen
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Fields of Research

Development, Use and Promotion of Voice Biometrics in Asylum Procedures

Digital Migration Studies

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