Data mining: proprietary rights, people and proposals

• Published in: Business ethics (Oxford, England) Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 241 - 252
• Main Authors: Payne, Dinah, Trumbach, Cherie Courseault
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Business community; Business ethics; Consumer protection; Data mining; Ethics; Proprietary; Right of privacy; Studies

This article focuses on the issue of data mining as it relates to the consumer and to the issue of whether the consumer's private information has any proprietary status. A brief review of data mining is provided as a background for a better understanding of the purposes and uses of data mining....