Data Mining, National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberties

In this paper, we describe the threats to privacy that can occur through data mining and then view the privacy problem as a variation of the inference problem in databases. Keywords Data Mining, National Security, Counter-terrorism, Inference Problem, Security Constraints, Privacy, Privacy Problem, Privacy Constraints, Privacy Sensitive Data Mining, World Wide Web, Civil Liberties

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SIGKDD
• Authors: Bhavani M. Thuraisingham
• Keywords: Inference Problem, Privacy, Privacy Problem, SIGKDD 2002