Non-consensual profiling

Building profiles of individuals without their knowledge or consent, often using scraped personal data.

Definition

AI makes it cheaper to aggregate and analyze personal data from multiple sources to build detailed profiles.

The harm is the violation of privacy and autonomy, not necessarily the use of the profile for a specific crime.

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Not legitimate market research with consent.
Not public records that individuals chose to make public.

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See surveillance cases involving dissident monitoring.

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