Does
the Tuscon data-mining project inappropriately violate the privacy of Internet
users, or is it an acceptable tradeoff to more intelligently combat terrorism? Explain your answer.
Data mining is the process and a
set of techniques for discovering valuable information, often called “intelligence”, that is not
explicitly stored in the database. It is based on longstanding theories of
statistics. Data mining is seen as an increasingly important tool by modern
business to transform data into business intelligence giving an informational
advantage. It is currently used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as
marketing, surveillance, fraud detection, and scientific discovery. There is what people always say privacy is an issue that is hotly debated, and it is
likely that it will continue to be debated in the future. In the information
age, it sometimes seems as if everyone wants to know everything about everybody
else. The rapid transfer of personal information has led to the rise of identity theft because of privacy concerns,
it is likely that data mining will become a well known topic of discussion
within the next 10 years. When asked about government surveillance and data
mining, many people respond by declaring: "I've got nothing to hide."
(Schneier,
2007) In my view, protecting civil liberties does not include protecting
criminal and unlawful activities, such as committing electronic commerce
frauds, money laundering, tax evasion, running child pornography sites on the
Internet, scamming, hacking, spreading computer viruses, etc. Therefore, to
answer the question is data-mining inappropriate no if it use for protecting
the innocent.
Schneier.B.(2007,7,13).BruceSchneier.RetrievedfromSchneieronSecurity:http://www.schneier. com/blog/archives/2007/07/privcy_and_the.html
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