Consumer Profiling, Nightmare Which Is Unavoidable ?
An individual's privacy, as far as being identified as part of and sorted into different categories, is very poorly protected world wide according to current research. Many laws do exist to protect an individual from invasion of their personal privacy.
This is apparent almost every day by the many lawsuits by celebraties against newspapers and others who have invaded their private lives.
Every one knows that a person has the right to protect the privacy of their home by shooting an intruder. However, there are apparantly no laws to protect against invading a person’s privacy by profiling.
Needless to say, filing a lawsuit against a computer database for invading someone's privacy would be a bit tough to enforce since modern day invasions of confidentiality is made up of fragments of information.
Suing a magazine company for including one's name on a list of names they sell to, a club that publishes their membership roster, or a church for showing a list of donors is unthinkable, however these and many other places are sources of personal information. This information is accumulated and sold, for a profit, with businesses such as fast-lookup.com/Illinois/Mt-Carroll/815/244, which collect this material from various databases.
It is assumed, by many people, that privacy is a fundamental human right and is essential in an established culture if it is to function properly. If this privacy is identified as protection from profiling, the question arises, “If these particular fundamental human rights were established, who would enforce them?” The government, of course.
The same government that has already created laws like the Patriot Act. There is a delightful irony here as protecting the individual's right to privacy would then increase government surveillance.
The United Nations has an established Declaration of Human Rights. It states, in general, that all of us have the right to our own opinion and expressing it, to hold our opinions without interference, and we are able to exchange ideas and information through any media . It would appear that the “exchange information and ideas through any media” opens the door for accumulating database information.
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