Ethical issues in web data mining

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-140

  Van Wel, Lita ^a   Royakkers, Lambèr ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethics; Individuality; KDD; Privacy; Web data mining

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOLUTION MINING; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

COMBINED SOLUTION; CONTENT AND STRUCTURE; ETHICS; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDIVIDUALITY; MARKETING INTELLIGENCES; WEB DATA MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 29144453756     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ETIN.0000047476.05912.3d     Document Type: Article

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