Automated data collection has fostered the use of data mining for crime detectio

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Automated data collection has fostered the use of data mining for crime detection. Banks, large corporations, insurance companies, government and security organizations are increasingly mining data (including personal data) about individuals to detect any fraud, crime or any potential security incident well in time before it causes any serious damage.

"Privacy preserving data mining" is designed to ensure privacy of individuals while performing data mining. Do you think privacy preserving data mining methods can not be used for crime detection? Discuss.

Explanation / Answer

Firstly privacy preserving datamining is used to dig the data by hiding all the personal information. Privacy preserving data mining can be used for crime detection activities.

Take for example we know data mining can be used to detect unusual patterns, terrorist activities and fraudulent behavior. This activities save a human life and protect the people from terrorist activities. Ofcourse there is also a negative side to this technology,

This is because data mining tools are available every where on the Web and even naive users can use and apply these tools to extract information from the data stored in various databases and files, and consequently violate the privacy of individuals.

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