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Behavioural Patterns Are the New Skin Colour

www.nthprocess.com Behavioural Patterns are the New Skin Colour

In a system that can't see you, your behavioural patterns become the things that are used to discriminate against you. That's all a digital system can really know about you. Physical attributes don't mean anything in a digital world, things like your ethnicity, gender, age, etc., aren't relevant to ...

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This isn't discrimination, this is the intention of capitalism. Has been long before the web. Under capitalism, you're insentivised to act in a way that concentrates capital, and disincentivised from not acting in a way that concentrates capital. With digital profiling, this has just become easier.
Also, I find it in poor taste to call this 'the new race'. Ethnicity based discrimination is still prevalent and has in no way been replaced by this. It's a separate issue that should be addressed, but without this weird comparison.

- I’d tell you that was racist, but more importantly that you were wrong.
  But I can’t tell if you’re being serious.

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