ABSTRACT
A growing portion of the concern about privacy invasion
surrounds data mining and both its perceived and real
threats to personal privacy. Recent events demonstrate
how various representatives of the public worldwide are
demanding protection against abuse of personal informa-
tion by organizations using data mining techniques on their
warehouse databases. The European Union (EU) has
already passed legislation protecting personal privacy.
Similar legislative and regulatory privacy protection con-
siderations exist in other countries, including Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the Czech
Republic, and more have already begun to follow. The
U.S. government is encouraging American companies to
follow voluntary compliance, reinforced by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade
Commission (FTC), and other regulatory bodies.
