Data mining: proprietary rights, people and proposals

Authors: Payne, Dinah; Trumbach, Cherie Courseault

Source: Business Ethics, A European Review, Volume 18, Number 3, July 2009 , pp. 241-252(12)

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Abstract:

This article focuses on the issue of data mining as it relates to the consumer and to the issue of whether the consumer's private information has any proprietary status. A brief review of data mining is provided as a background for a better understanding of the purposes and uses of data mining. Also examined are several issues of the ethics of data mining, including a review of stakeholders, who they are and which may be most seriously affected by unethical data mining practices. Several suggestions for the improvement of data mining as it relates to the consumer are further presented: suggestions that would allow for data mining that would be beneficial to both the business community and the consumer.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2009.01560.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Management, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Publication date: 2009-07-01