Direct and Indirect Profiling in the Light of Virtual Persons
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Titre
Direct and Indirect Profiling in the Light of Virtual Persons
Titre du livre
Profiling the European Citizen, Cross-Discinplinary Perspectives
Editeur
Hildebrandt M. Gutwirth S.
ISBN
978-1-4020-6913-0
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Numéro de chapitre
2.7
Pages
34-43
Edition
Springer
Langue
anglais
Notes
peer-reviewed
Résumé
We elaborate the difference between individual and group profiling in a slightly different manner, by distinguishing and defining direct and indirect profiling. We study these two types of profiling in the light of virtual persons. In direct profiling, data is typically collected for one single subject or a small group of subjects. Knowledge built on this data then only applies to this specific subject or this small group of subjects. Direct profiling can be used to uniquely characterize a person within a population or to infer, for example, future behavior, needs or habits of a specific target.
In indirect profiling, data is collected from a large population. Groups and categories of subjects with similar properties emerge from the collected data. Each group has its own identity defined through a small amount of information. The typical member of one group can be modeled using the concept of virtual persons. It is then sufficient to identify a subject as a member of the group, i.e. with the corresponding virtual person, to be able to infer, for this subject, knowledge inherited from the group itself: probable behavior, probable attributes, probable risks, etc.
In indirect profiling, data is collected from a large population. Groups and categories of subjects with similar properties emerge from the collected data. Each group has its own identity defined through a small amount of information. The typical member of one group can be modeled using the concept of virtual persons. It is then sufficient to identify a subject as a member of the group, i.e. with the corresponding virtual person, to be able to infer, for this subject, knowledge inherited from the group itself: probable behavior, probable attributes, probable risks, etc.
Mots-clé
individual profiling, group profiling, direct profiling, indirect profiling
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