Business Analytics

Chapter 9

The Legal and Privacy Implications of Data Mining

Elana Zeide

Learning Objectives

• Understand the history of privacy rights and regulation in America.
• Understand the constitutional, legal, and privacy implications of governmental use of data mining.
• Understand the legal and privacy implications of private sector use of data mining.
• Identify what types of data collection, analysis, and dissemination prompts legal and privacy concerns.
• Understand the practical, ethical, and legal difficulties governments and corporations face in attempting to provide legal and privacy protection in the context of data mining.

Introduction

This book details many ways in which the analysis of large collections of data can benefit both businesses and consumers. ...