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STUDY: Digital Personae and Profiles in Law: Protecting Individuals' Rights in Online Contexts

01 September 2013

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"Every individual is represented in digital form in numerous data sets. Commercial companies use these digital representations as a basis for making decisions that affect the individual. This has implications for privacy and autonomy of the individual and the ability to construct one’s own identity. This study describes how digital representations are created and for what purposes."

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