Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Müller, Vincent C.
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17428
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866915209088598016
author Müller, Vincent C.
author_facet Müller, Vincent C.
contents Data mining is not an invasion of privacy because access to data is only by machines, not by people: this is the argument that is investigated here. The current importance of this problem is developed in a case study of data mining in the USA for counterterrorism and other surveillance purposes. After a clarification of the relevant nature of privacy, it is argued that access by machines cannot warrant the access to further information, since the analysis will have to be made either by humans or by machines that understand. It concludes that the current data mining violates the right to privacy and should be subject to the standard legal constraints for access to private information by people.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_17428
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Would you mind being watched by machines? Privacy concerns in data mining
Müller, Vincent C.
Computers and Society
Data mining is not an invasion of privacy because access to data is only by machines, not by people: this is the argument that is investigated here. The current importance of this problem is developed in a case study of data mining in the USA for counterterrorism and other surveillance purposes. After a clarification of the relevant nature of privacy, it is argued that access by machines cannot warrant the access to further information, since the analysis will have to be made either by humans or by machines that understand. It concludes that the current data mining violates the right to privacy and should be subject to the standard legal constraints for access to private information by people.
title Would you mind being watched by machines? Privacy concerns in data mining
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17428