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The prevalence of database use and data mining raises numerous issues related to ethics and privacy.

Discuss the following:

• Is your privacy infringed if data mining reveals certain characteristics about the overall population of your community?
• Does the use of data promote good business practice or bigotry?
• To what extent is it proper to force citizens to participate in a census, knowing that more information will be extracted from the data than is explicitly requested by the individual questionnaires?
• Does data mining give marketing firms an unfair advantage over unsuspecting audiences?