Ebook: Profiling the European Citizen: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Tags: Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities general, Computer Science general
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding mass of information. Selection of the relevant bits of information seems to become more important than the retrieval of data as such: the information is all out there, but what it means and how we should act on it may be one of the big questions of the 21st century. If an information society is a society with an exponential proliferation of data, a knowledge society must be the one that has learned how to cope with this.
Profiling technologies seem to be one of the most promising technological means to create order in the chaos of proliferating data. In this volume a multifocal view will be developed to focus upon what profiling is, where it is applied and what may be the impact on democracy and rule of law. Based on the work done within the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS), a set of authors from different disciplinary backgrounds and jurisdictions share their understanding of profiling as a technology that may be preconditional for the future of our information society.
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding mass of information. Selection of the relevant bits of information seems to become more important than the retrieval of data as such: the information is all out there, but what it means and how we should act on it may be one of the big questions of the 21st century. If an information society is a society with an exponential proliferation of data, a knowledge society must be the one that has learned how to cope with this.
Profiling technologies seem to be one of the most promising technological means to create order in the chaos of proliferating data. In this volume a multifocal view will be developed to focus upon what profiling is, where it is applied and what may be the impact on democracy and rule of law. Based on the work done within the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS), a set of authors from different disciplinary backgrounds and jurisdictions share their understanding of profiling as a technology that may be preconditional for the future of our information society.
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding mass of information. Selection of the relevant bits of information seems to become more important than the retrieval of data as such: the information is all out there, but what it means and how we should act on it may be one of the big questions of the 21st century. If an information society is a society with an exponential proliferation of data, a knowledge society must be the one that has learned how to cope with this.
Profiling technologies seem to be one of the most promising technological means to create order in the chaos of proliferating data. In this volume a multifocal view will be developed to focus upon what profiling is, where it is applied and what may be the impact on democracy and rule of law. Based on the work done within the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS), a set of authors from different disciplinary backgrounds and jurisdictions share their understanding of profiling as a technology that may be preconditional for the future of our information society.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 16-16
General Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-13
Defining Profiling: A New Type of Knowledge?....Pages 17-45
General Description of the Process of Behavioural Profiling....Pages 47-63
The Role of Algorithms in Profiling....Pages 65-87
Behavioural Biometric Profiling and Ambient Intelligence....Pages 89-109
Personalisation and its Influence on Identities, Behaviour and Social Values....Pages 111-127
Front Matter....Pages 130-130
Biometric Profiling: Opportunities and Risks....Pages 131-145
Profiling and Location-Based Services (LBS)....Pages 147-168
Collecting Data for the Profiling of Web Users....Pages 169-184
User Profiling for Attention Support at School and Work....Pages 185-200
Profiling of Customers and Consumers - Customer Loyalty Programmes and Scoring Practices....Pages 201-215
Profiling in Employment Situations (Fraud)....Pages 217-237
Front Matter....Pages 240-240
Cogitas, Ergo Sum. The Role of Data Protection Law and Non-discrimination Law in Group Profiling in the Private Sector....Pages 241-270
Regulating Profiling in a Democratic Constitutional State....Pages 271-302
Profiling and the Identity of the European Citizen....Pages 303-343
Knowing Me, Knowing You – Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest....Pages 345-363
Concise Conclusions: Citizens out of Control....Pages 365-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-373
In the eyes of many, one of the most challenging problems of the information society is that we are faced with an ever expanding mass of information. Selection of the relevant bits of information seems to become more important than the retrieval of data as such: the information is all out there, but what it means and how we should act on it may be one of the big questions of the 21st century. If an information society is a society with an exponential proliferation of data, a knowledge society must be the one that has learned how to cope with this.
Profiling technologies seem to be one of the most promising technological means to create order in the chaos of proliferating data. In this volume a multifocal view will be developed to focus upon what profiling is, where it is applied and what may be the impact on democracy and rule of law. Based on the work done within the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS), a set of authors from different disciplinary backgrounds and jurisdictions share their understanding of profiling as a technology that may be preconditional for the future of our information society.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 16-16
General Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-13
Defining Profiling: A New Type of Knowledge?....Pages 17-45
General Description of the Process of Behavioural Profiling....Pages 47-63
The Role of Algorithms in Profiling....Pages 65-87
Behavioural Biometric Profiling and Ambient Intelligence....Pages 89-109
Personalisation and its Influence on Identities, Behaviour and Social Values....Pages 111-127
Front Matter....Pages 130-130
Biometric Profiling: Opportunities and Risks....Pages 131-145
Profiling and Location-Based Services (LBS)....Pages 147-168
Collecting Data for the Profiling of Web Users....Pages 169-184
User Profiling for Attention Support at School and Work....Pages 185-200
Profiling of Customers and Consumers - Customer Loyalty Programmes and Scoring Practices....Pages 201-215
Profiling in Employment Situations (Fraud)....Pages 217-237
Front Matter....Pages 240-240
Cogitas, Ergo Sum. The Role of Data Protection Law and Non-discrimination Law in Group Profiling in the Private Sector....Pages 241-270
Regulating Profiling in a Democratic Constitutional State....Pages 271-302
Profiling and the Identity of the European Citizen....Pages 303-343
Knowing Me, Knowing You – Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest....Pages 345-363
Concise Conclusions: Citizens out of Control....Pages 365-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-373
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