A high cost in dollars and privacy for the individual. If two data points are enough to draw a trend line, the trend I’ve spotted is government seeking to use data mining where it doesn’t work. A comment in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently argued that universities should start mining data about student behavior in order to thwart incipient ... MOREJim Harper: Government's Surveillance-Security Fantasies
A high cost in dollars and privacy for the individual. If two data points are enough to draw a trend line, the trend I’ve spotted is government seeking to use data mining where it doesn’t work. A comment in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently argued that universities should start mining data about student behavior in order to thwart incipient ... MORE