http://www.triskele.com/2006/05/12/nsa-uber-database-revisited Political & actuarial musings and assorted roadgeek trivia Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:41:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.triskele.com/2006/05/12/nsa-uber-database-revisited/comment-page-1#comment-251 Mike The Actuary&#8217;s Musings &#187; German Court Rules Data-Mining to be Invasion of Privacy Wed, 24 May 2006 22:38:02 +0000 http://test.triskele.com/2006/05/12/nsa-uber-database-revisited/#comment-251 <p>[...] On the other hand, I don’t like seeing data-mining written off as being inherently evil. It’s a tool. Like other tools, it can be used in an “evil” manner, as well as a “good” one. I’ve written previously about one way that a data-mining exercise could (I think) be undertaken without significant erosion of privacy rights. [...]</p> [...] On the other hand, I don&#8217;t like seeing data-mining written off as being inherently evil. It&#8217;s a tool. Like other tools, it can be used in an &#8220;evil&#8221; manner, as well as a &#8220;good&#8221; one. I&#8217;ve written previously about one way that a data-mining exercise could (I think) be undertaken without significant erosion of privacy rights. [...]

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