Data Mining vs Privacy. Large amount of data available in digital form. Statisticians query data to mine useful trends. Potential for privacy breaches. Stanford University course.
Privacy is a micro concern, i.e. it refers to individual database records, while data mining tools want to learn macro rules that hold for a large fraction of the database. Techniques that publish data while preserving the right balance between individual
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