Data Mining to Combat Terrorism and the Roots of Privacy Concerns |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Frans?A?J?BirrerEmail author |
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| Institution: | (1) Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), P.O. Box 9512, 2300, RA, Leiden, Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Recently, there has been a heavy debate in the US about the government’s use of data mining in its fight against terrorism.
Privacy concerns in fact led the Congress to terminate the funding of TIA, a program for advanced information technology to
be used in the combat of terrorism. The arguments put forward in this debate, more specifically those found in the main report
and minority report by the TAPAC established by the Secretary of Defense to examine the TIA issue, will be analysed to trace
the deeper roots of this controversy. This analysis will in turn be used as a test case to examine the adequacy of the usual
theoretical frameworks for these kinds of issues, in particular the notion of privacy. Whereas the dominant theoretical framing
of the notion of privacy turns around access to information, most of the core arguments in the debate do not fit in this kind of framework. The basic disagreements in
the controversy are not about mere access, they involve both access and use. Furthermore, whereas the issue of access by itself refers to a more or less static situation, the real disagreements much
more concern the organisational dynamics of the use of information, the mechanisms in the organisation that control these
dynamics, and the awareness present within the organisation of the ‘social risks’ these dynamics represent. The bottom line
question is whether the assessment of these gives sufficient reason for trust. |
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| Keywords: | data mining ethics privacy risk security systems of subliminal enticement terrorism |
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