Research explores data mining, privacy

Read:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2006-06-18-data-mining-privacy_x.htm?csp=34

The key to be able to use data mining and artificial intelligence techniques in a cost-efficient manner is to find ways of using the raw real-time data (thanks Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for his contribution in this area). If we need to strip and convert data identifiers to no-identifiers before we apply DM and AI techniques we will never be able to have a cost-efficient method. The issue is not to strip the data of identifiers, the issue is to limit who has access to the data, analysis and for what purpose.