From the “Real Me” to the “Statistical Me”: Why Privacy Protection Must Now Govern Data, Representation, and Action

The article argues that privacy protection needs to expand beyond just protecting your actual personal information to also protecting your 'statistical me,' which is the version of you that AI systems create, store, and use to make decisions about you. This shift matters because AI models infer and build detailed profiles about individuals based on data, and these AI-generated representations can be used to take actions that affect your life, even if they don't match who you really are.