Name: Serge

Family Name: Gutwirth

Affiliation: LSTS VUB

Personal web-site: http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/people/index.shtml

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Serge Gutwirth is professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and holder of a research fellowship in the framework of the VUB-Research Contingent.

He is the Director of the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS).

Title of the presentation

Profiling the European citizen (together with Mireille Hildebrandt)

Abstract

Profiling is be crucial for both the creation of order in the chaos of proliferating data and for the further development of ambient intelligence and other widespread anticipative technological tools and environments. In their address Gutwirth and Hildebrandt -the editors of Profiling the European citizen (Springer, 2008) - will discuss the most stringent concerns and perspectives related to profiling.

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