Does Data Mining breach of privacy ?

What is Data Mining ?Data mining techniques are used to find patterns in large databases of information. But sometimes these patterns can reveal sensitive information about the data holder or individuals whose information are the subject of the patterns. The notion of privacy-preserving data mining is to identify and disallow such revelations as evident in the kinds of patterns learned using traditional data mining techniques. Can we accept it ? Some people believe that data mining itself is ethically neutral. It is important to note that the term data mining has no ethical implications. The term is often associated with the mining of information...

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