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Unit 2: Data Mining Concept

has put together a list of what they call the Six Commandments of Ethical Date Management. The notes
six commandments include:
1. Data is a valuable corporate asset and should be managed as such, like cash, facilities or
any other corporate asset;
2. The CIO is steward of corporate data and is responsible for managing it over its life cycle
(from its generation to its appropriate destruction);
3. The CIO is responsible for controlling access to and use of data, as determined by
governmental regulation and corporate policy;
4. The CIO is responsible for preventing inappropriate destruction of data;
5. The CIO is responsible for bringing technological knowledge to the development of data
management practices and policies;
6. The CIO should partner with executive peers to develop and execute the organization’s
data management policies.
Since data mining is not a perfect process, mistakes such as mismatching information do occur.
Companies and organizations are aware of this issue and try to deal it. According to Agrawal,
a IBM’s researcher, data obtained through mining is only associated with a 5 to 10 percent loss
in accuracy. However, with continuous improvement in data mining techniques, the percent in
inaccuracy will decrease significantly.

2.11.3 government point of view

The government is in dilemma when it comes to data mining practices. On one hand, the
government wants to have access to people’s personal data so that it can tighten the security
system and protect the public from terrorists, but on the other hand, the government wants to
protect the people’s privacy right. The government recognizes the value of data mining to the
society, thus wanting the businesses to use the consumers’ personal information in an ethical way.
According to the government, it is against the law for companies and organizations to trade data
they had collected for money or data collected by another organization. In order to protect the
people’s privacy right, the government wants to create laws to monitor the data mining practices.
However, it is extremely difficult to monitor such disparate resources as servers, databases, and
web sites. In addition, Internet is global, thus creating tremendous difficulty for the government
to enforce the laws.

2.11.4 society’s point of view

Data mining can aid law enforcers in their process of identify criminal suspects and apprehend
these criminals. Data mining can help reduce the amount of time and effort that these law enforcers
have to spend on any one particular case. Thus, allowing them to deal with more problems.
Hopefully, this would make the country becomes a safer place. In addition, data mining may
also help reduce terrorist acts by allowing government officers to identify and locate potential
terrorists early. Thus, preventing another incidence likes the World Trade Center tragedy from
occurring on American soil.
Data mining can also benefit the society by allowing researchers to collect and analyze data more
efficiently. For example, it took researchers more than a decade to complete the Human Genome
Project. But with data mining, similar projects could be completed in a shorter amount of time.
Data mining may be an important tool that aid researchers in their search for new medications,
biological agents, or gene therapy that would cure deadly diseases such as cancers or AIDS.

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