Big Data

Some Issues of Privacy in a World of Big Data and Data Mining

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However, increasingly that communication information is being used for other purposes.

For example, Twitter data has been found to be useful to make certain predictions and knowl-

edge discovery opportunities, and Twitter tweets have been found to be related to music

purchases. However, it is unlikely that many Twitter users know that their Twitter tweets

are analyzed and are used to make inferences about information contained in the messages.

Although those communications are made for others to read, it is unlikely that the originators

planned to have their comments aggregated and ...