The policy states that Patreon uses collected information to make inferences about users including demographic attributes such as age and binary gender, and to estimate potential earnings for creator accounts.
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This provision discloses that Patreon engages in automated profiling to derive demographic characteristics and financial estimates about users, which may engage GDPR profiling provisions, CCPA inference data disclosure requirements, and FTC guidance on data-driven consumer profiling.
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Compare across platforms →"make inferences about you, including demographic information like your age and binary gender and estimating your potential earnings as a creator;Excerpt from Patreon's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: GDPR Article 22 addresses automated decision-making and profiling, and depending on the operational use of these inferences, data subjects may have rights to object or request human review.
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This provision discloses that Patreon engages in automated profiling to derive demographic characteristics and financial estimates about users, which may engage GDPR profiling provisions, CCPA inference data disclosure requirements, and FTC guidance on data-driven consumer profiling.
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