On US Homeland Security, Data Mining and Civil Liberties

By: Won Kim

Abstract

Data mining is not as magical or even automatic as the marketing literature of the vendors of data mining software and services tend to portray it. The patterns of data that data mining automatically discovers are often useless and irrelevant, and must be carefully analyzed and interpreted before useful intelligence can be obtained.

Cite as:

Won Kim, “On US Homeland Security, Data Mining and Civil Liberties”, Journal of Object Technology, Volume 2, no. 3 (May 2003), pp. 33-37, doi:10.5381/jot.2003.2.3.c4.

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