%0 Journal Article %T A Composite Strategy for the Legal and Ethical Use of Data Mining %A Dinah Payne %A Brett J. L. Landry %J International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning %D 2012 %I International School for Social and Business Studies %X An increasingly popular business practice, data mining provides for the extractionof information from existing data to identify trends such as consumerpurchasing practices and can foster greater efficiency in companies¡¯ marketingefforts. There are corresponding costs associated with data mining, aswell. The most difficult issue surrounding data mining is that of individualprivacy rights and the costs associated with the potential alteration of ¡®traditional¡¯privacy rights. This paper seeks to review basic definitional informationon data mining and provide a strategy for companies¡¯ successful, meaningfuland ethical use of data mining as presented for meaningful knowledgegeneration. %K management %K learning %K knowledge %K data mining %K text mining %K privacy %K ethics %K strategy %U http://www.issbs.si/press/ISSN/2232-5697/1_27-43.pdf