Data shadow

Predictive profiling is used to socially sort populations . Through denying credit or screening career opportunities, negative profiles can haunt an individual across various domains. A person’s data shadow does more than follow them; it precedes them.

– Rob Kitchin, Continuous Geosurveillance in the “Smart City” 

They say that if you meet your double, you should kill him. Or that he will kill you. I can’t remember which but… the gist of it is that two of you is one too many. By the end of the script, one of you must die.

– Johan Grimonprez  Double Take (2009 Belgium/Germany/ The Netherlands/ USA)

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