Title :
The conditions and consequences of profiling in commercial and governmental settings
Author_Institution :
Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
Profiling is a technique whereby a set of characteristics of a particular class of person is inferred from past experience, and data holdings are then searched for individuals with a close fit to that set of characteristics. The results of profiling bring individuals´ civil liberties and privacy into conflict with apparently legitimate applications of data collection, manipulation and filtering. This paper considers certain aspects of the information environment that enable the accession, collection, collation and analysis of data from large databases containing personal information from public and private sources. It describes some of the current types of profiling in both commercial and governmental settings and the stated purpose of such activities. Some implications and consequences of such collection manipulation and analyses are then presented
Keywords :
business data processing; data acquisition; data analysis; data privacy; government data processing; information retrieval; social aspects of automation; very large databases; civil liberties; commercial settings; data accession; data analysis; data collation; data collection; data filtering; data holding; data manipulation; governmental settings; information environment; large databases; past experience; personal characteristics; personal information; personal privacy; private information sources; profiling; public information sources; searching; Consumer electronics; Data analysis; Data mining; Data privacy; Databases; Filtering; Information analysis; Insurance; Libraries; Sorting;
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society, 1998. ISTAS 98. Wiring the World: The Impact of Information Technology on Society., Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
South Bend, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4327-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.1998.689170
