Computer profiling and mistakes in the computer matching of personal data are other controversial threats to privacy.
Individuals have been mistakenly arrested and jailed and people have been denied credit because their physical profiles or personal data have been used by profiling software to match them incorrectly or improperly with wrong individuals.
Another threat is the unauthorized matching of computerized information about extracted from databases of sales transaction processing systems, and sold to information brokers or other companies.
A more recent threat is the unauthorized matching and sale of information about you collected from Internet websites and newsgroup you visit.
You are then subjected to a barrage of unsolicited promotional material and sales contacts as well as having your privacy violated.
Computer Matching
