Informational privacy, data mining, and theInternet

  • Authors:
  • Herman T. Tavani

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Philosophy, Rivier College, Nashua, New Hamphsire, USA. E-mail: htavani@rivier.edu

  • Venue:
  • Ethics and Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Privacy concerns involving data mining are examined interms of four questions: (1) What exactly isdata mining? (2) How does data mining raise concernsfor personal privacy? (3) How do privacy concernsraised by data mining differ from those concernsintroduced by ’traditional‘ information-retrievaltechniques in computer databases? (4) How do privacyconcerns raised by mining personal data from theInternet differ from those concerns introduced bymining such data from ’data warehouses?‘ It is arguedthat the practice of using data-mining techniques,whether on the Internet or in data warehouses, to gaininformation about persons raises privacy concerns that(a) go beyond concerns introduced in traditionalinformation-retrieval techniques in computer databasesand (b) are not covered by present data-protectionguidelines and privacy laws.