Overview
- This volume aims to put profiling on the agenda of computer scientists, social scientists, lawyers, philosophers and others, by presenting a multifocal perspective that provides serious insight into profiling while also grounding it in its societal context
- It consists of a set of main contributions followed by cross-disciplinary replies, thus generating a productive discussion across the borders of different research communities
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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 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).
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What is Profiling?
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Front Matter
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Applications of Profiling
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Profiling, Democracy and Rule of Law
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Bibliographic information
Book title: Profiling the European Citizen
Book subtitle: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Mireille Hildebrandt, Serge Gutwirth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6914-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6913-0Published: 07 May 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7762-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6914-7Published: 01 May 2008
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: XXX, 374
Topics: Computer Science, general