# Behavioral Profiling
Behavioral profiling constructs a model of a person, account, device, or group from actions, timing, relationships, preferences, location, language, and response patterns.
## Uses
Legitimate uses include fraud prevention, personalization, accessibility, security analytics, and research. The same capability can support discriminatory scoring, coercive targeting, surveillance, or adaptive influence.
## Evidentiary boundary
Personalized output does not reveal which profile fields, model, operator, or objective produced it. Provider records, experimentation controls, data provenance, and repeated differential behavior are needed.
## Relationships
[[Adaptive Governor]] · [[Audience Analytics]] · [[Identity Economy]] · [[Surveillance Capability]].