ON ETHICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF DATA MINING

Year 2008, Volume: 3 Issue: 11, 1455 - 1461, 01.06.2008

Mehmet Cudi Okur

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ON ETHICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF DATA MINING

Abstract

Data mining technology allows large volumes of data to be exploited for discovering previously unknown,possibly useful knowledge. The speed and extent of developments in information technologies have increased the power and potential of data mining.However, the privacy of personally sensitive information is not respected generally in the process,which creates ethical and legal problems in some applications.In this study,the ethical and legal aspects of data mining are explored and a critical evaluation of the protective methods is presented

Keywords

Data mining , knowledge discovery, computer ethics, privacy reservation, sensitive information

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