When this information is merged and mined properly, this data could reveal not only your credit information but also your driving habits, your tastes, your associations, and your political interests. Companies with products to sell purchase relevant information from these sources to help them more finely target their marketing campaigns. For example, if you buy upscale merchandise from one catalog, the catalog company might sell your name to another catalog mail-order company. Advances in Networking Lastly, advances in networking, including the Internet, promise to reduce greatly the costs of moving and accessing large quantities of data, and open the possibility of mining large pools of data remotely using small desktop machines, permitting an invasion of privacy on a scale and precision previously unimaginable. No longer is the computer behind a locked door where only a select few have access to the computer room.
Many employees now have access to the organization s databases.
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