What are Human Attributes?

Human attributes are a dynamic and expanding kind of information emergent from human capabilities and life experience. Human attributes, sometimes expressed in metadata, and personal information belong to the same domain, namely human capabilities. Human attributes belong to each person in the same way that human rights and dignities do. Human rights and dignities exist to protect and encourage human capabilities. Each person creates his or her own personal information and human attributes. The protection of human capabilities is the raison d’etre of privacy.