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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 see about you. Physical attributes don't mean anything in a digital world, things like your ethnicity, gender, age, etc., aren't relevant to digital

In a system that can't see you, your behavioural patterns become the things that are used to discriminate against you. As systems increasingly categorize us based on our behavioural patterns they force us into different digital classes, some are ideal users, some are problematic. These systems are the systems that we use in every day life, your bank accounts, social media's, iCloud's and Google Drives — you could be restricted or completely cut off at the whim of an algorithm, stuck without appeal because you won't even know which rule you broke.

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