Data Mining and Privacy of Social Network Sites' Users: Implications of the Data Mining Problem.

This paper explores the potential of data mining as a technique that could be used by malicious data miners to threaten the privacy of social network sites (SNS) users. It applies a data mining algorithm to a real dataset to provide empirically-based evidence of the ease with which characteristics a...

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Published in:	Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 941 - 967
Main Authors:	Al-Saggaf, Yeslam, Islam, Md
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2015
Subjects:	Data mining Online social networks research Computer security ethics Content analysis Decision trees Ethics Mathematical models
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost