Data Profiling
Posted on April 13, 2008
The process of assembling information about a particular individual in order to generate a picture of his/her patterns and behavior is what is referred to as data profiling. It is used in security, law enforcement and intelligence operations for a variety of applications. Government is able to access information from third parties such as banks and credit companies by informally requesting access by compelling such access through other procedures or by purchasing data from commercial data aggregators or data brokers.
Information regarding an individual transaction is relatively easy to get hold of since no high value is generally placed on isolation. It becomes valuable when a number of such transactions are aggregated to assemble a detailed profile revealing the actions, habits and preferences of an individual.
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