Solution to a Philosophical Problem concerning Data Mining Joseph S. Fulda, CSE, PhD t 701 VEst 177th Street #21, New York, N Y 10033 fhlkkt @acre.org;ht~p://www,cds~.org/eight,html A t the close of 1997, I put forth a puzzling aspect of data mining: "This ... rings into relief the difficult philosophical question that data mining and nowledge discovery have created: Is it possible for data that does not in itself deserve legal protection to contain implicit knowledge that does deserve legal protection and, if so, what balance must be struck between the freedom to use whatever knowledge one has at one's disposal to further one's own ends and the freedom not to have one's personal data mined into knowledge that will be used as a means to someone else's ends? "1 At the close of 1998, I put forth a theory of privacy based generally on tort law, and wrote in passing what proved to be more controversial than the theory: "People know right from wrong, and moral philosophy is largely an a posteriori attempt to systematize that knowledge: The test of a good theory of ethics is whether it produces results that largely agree with our intuitions. Then the
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Solution to a philosophical problem concerning data mining
Fulda, Joseph S.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1999
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