[IP] help on profiles? from film maker Germany

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Max Zeitler <maxzeitler@do4d.com>
Date: March 12, 2007 6:23:47 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: help on profiles?

Dave,

for IP if you wish,

as a film maker in Berlin I am currently researching about digital  
identity (for potential docufiction). After some meditation I decided  
to post some questions to IP. I hope this won't be considered IP- 
abuse, since i'm not posting information...

Can someone help me with precise information about what categories of  
data the various data-brokers and government-agencies really have. I  
have read a lot of articles and books about (mostly US-based) data- 
mining-projects and companies but I failed (completely) trying to  
understand what these individual profiles exactly look like. Here in  
Germany it was made clear to me that data-brokers won't tell what  
they've got. So, I guess I'm trying the impossible. nevertheless,  
help/comments on the following questions would be greatly appreciated:

- Are there any samples somewhere, what ChoicePoint-/Acxiom-/ 
LexisNexis- or homeland security-profiles exactly look like? (I  
assume: name / birth / adress / income / most of the 34 categories of  
flight PNR-data  / data from loyalty-programs / criminal records)
what else is included?

- Can data-brokers get mobile-phone/GPS-data? Do they have motion- 
profiles?

- What do the resulting "behaviour profiles" exactly look like?  
Again, any samples?

- and: what can they do with the data?
(i know of: direct marketing, credit-scoring, call-center-scoring,  
police/immigration/terror-screening)

- Or are these profiles indeed mostly inefficient? (as Dave suggested  
in his comment's on the total inefficiency of the use  of PNR-data  
thru homeland-security (in vienna, october 2006))

thanks for comments, my apologies for asking so many questions and  
best wishes from berlin,

- max

ps: just ID myself, this is our last completed project:  
www.koenigsberg-is-dead.de (in German)

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