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Identity, profiles and pseudonyms in the digital environment
- Abstract:
- The boundaries of personal data are determined by the concept of ‘identity’. Personal data, as defined under the GDPR, is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. In this chapter, we argue that the informational ‘identity’ of an identified/identifiable person is characterised by the potential for privacy impact. Our informational identity is, in essence, the sum of all the information which can impact our rights. We use profiles and pseudonyms as an illustration of this definition. Profiles permit scrutiny of an individual – and thus ‘identify’ them through the intrinsic privacy impact of this evaluation. Pseudonyms alone do not allow individuals to be evaluated, which is why they are not, in and of themselves, personal data.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1515/9789048557998-014
- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Host title:
- The Boundaries of Data
- Pages:
- 275-293
- Chapter number:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam
- Publication date:
- 2024-02-21
- Edition:
- 1
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- 9789048557998
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English
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1987432
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pubs:1987432
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2024-04-22
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- Mourby and Mackey
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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- © All authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2024. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.
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