Profiling the European Citizen

1. Front Matter

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2. What is Profiling?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 16-16

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   2. General Introduction and Overview

      • Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth

      Pages 1-13

   3. Defining Profiling: A New Type of Knowledge?

      • Mireille Hildebrandt

      Pages 17-45

   4. General Description of the Process of Behavioural Profiling

      • Ana Canhoto, James Backhouse

      Pages 47-63

   5. The Role of Algorithms in Profiling

      • Bernhard Anrig, Will Browne, Mark Gasson

      Pages 65-87

   6. Behavioural Biometric Profiling and Ambient Intelligence

      • Angelos Yannopoulos, Vassiliki Andronikou, Theodora Varvarigou

      Pages 89-109

   7. Personalisation and its Influence on Identities, Behaviour and Social Values

      • Simone van der Hof, Corien Prins

      Pages 111-127

3. Applications of Profiling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 130-130

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   2. Biometric Profiling: Opportunities and Risks

      • Vassiliki Andronikou, Angelos Yannopoulos, Theodora Varvarigou

      Pages 131-145

   3. Profiling and Location-Based Services (LBS)

      • Lothar Fritsch

      Pages 147-168

   4. Collecting Data for the Profiling of Web Users

      • Emmanuel Benoist

      Pages 169-184

   5. User Profiling for Attention Support at School and Work

      • Thierry Nabeth

      Pages 185-200

   6. Profiling of Customers and Consumers - Customer Loyalty Programmes and Scoring Practices

      • Meike Kamp, Barbara Körffer, Martin Meints

      Pages 201-215

   7. Profiling in Employment Situations (Fraud)

      • Nils Leopold, Martin Meints

      Pages 217-237

4. Profiling, Democracy and Rule of Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 240-240

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   2. Cogitas, Ergo Sum. The Role of Data Protection Law and Non-discrimination Law in Group Profiling in the Private Sector

      • Wim Schreurs, Mireille Hildebrandt, Els Kindt, Michaël Vanfleteren

      Pages 241-270

   3. Regulating Profiling in a Democratic Constitutional State

      • Serge Gutwirth, Paul De Hert

      Pages 271-302

   4. Profiling and the Identity of the European Citizen

      • Mireille Hildebrandt

      Pages 303-343

   5. Knowing Me, Knowing You – Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest

      • Roger Brownsword

      Pages 345-363

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 multi-focal 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. The book is the result of research conducted within the framework of the FIDIS (Future of Identity of Information Society) NoE (Network of Excellence).

• Chaos
• Data Protection
• Profiling
• algorithms
• ambient intelligence
• control
• privacy
• society
• technology

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

  Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth

• Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth

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