AT: Profiling Bad Adv – Alt Causes Tons of alt causes to profiling Timothy M. Ravich, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, October 2007, “Is Airline Passenger Profiling Necessary?,” http://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=umlr Inarguably, profiling requires discrimination. Both "profiling" and "discrimination" have acquired strong negative connotations. 175 Yet, profiling and discrimination are common, lawful features of economic life in America today because of the commoditization of personal information. 176 Banks and supermarkets have long used profiling as marketing and strategic planning tools.177 Businesses today segment their customers on the basis of buying habits and patterns, where repeat customers earn benefits such as gift cards or giveaways. Airlines certainly profile and categorize their customers through computer reservation and yield management systems, along with frequent flyer reward programs. 78 In state and federal courts across the nation, lawyers profile potential jurors during voir dire and doing so is an important part of the judicial process. Of course, lawyers may only profile potential jurors on the condition they do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.17 9 In the marketplace and in the courtroom, then, profiling can be rational conduct, and discrimination can entail nothing more than differentiating individuals on permissible grounds for appropriate ends.
AT: Profiling Bad Adv – Alt Causes Tons of alt causes to profiling Timothy M. Ravich, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, October 2007, “Is Airline Passenger Profiling Necessary?,” http://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=umlr Inarguably, profiling requires discrimination. Both "profiling" and "discrimination" have acquired strong negative connotations. 175 Yet, profiling and discrimination are common, lawful features of economic life in America today because of the commoditization of personal information. 176 Banks and supermarkets have long used profiling as marketing and strategic planning tools.177 Businesses today segment their customers on the basis of buying habits and patterns, where repeat customers earn benefits such as gift cards or giveaways. Airlines certainly profile and categorize their customers through computer reservation and yield management systems, along with frequent flyer reward programs. 78 In state and federal courts across the nation, lawyers profile potential jurors during voir dire and doing so is an important part of the judicial process. Of course, lawyers may only profile potential jurors on the condition they do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.17 9 In the marketplace and in the courtroom, then, profiling can be rational conduct, and discrimination can entail nothing more than differentiating individuals on permissible grounds for appropriate ends.
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