Data Security and Privacy of Individuals in Data Mining: A Critical Analysis of Data Mining in India

Abstract

We live in world where every day vast amount of data flows in through various medium. Data mining could
be considered because of the natural growth of information technology. The concept of data mining is widely
used all over as an instrument to mine hidden information from the database of companies that can be
used by the respective companies to deal with their complicated business affairs and improve their services
accordingly. Despite that the information revealed by data mining applications, people have shown their
increasing concern about the other side of the coin, specifically the privacy threats posed by data mining.
An individual’s privacy may be hampered or violated due to unauthorized access to their sensitive personal
data, unwanted discovery of once embarrassing information etc. In this research paper the author desire to
highlight the probable privacy issues that an individual must face due to data mining.