Secondary use is “the use of personal information for a purpose other than the one for which it was supplied” (pg. 52). Some examples of secondary use include consumer information being sold to marketers to use for various reason running schemes on people. Another example would be the use of information in various databases to deny someone a job or to tailor a political pitch. Information like this is used as secondary information to give employers the information they need to know whether they want to hire you for the job or if they do not want to hire you for the job. The Internal Revenue Service using databases to find various information on individuals is another example. People have little control over the secondary uses of their personal data. The secondary use of individuals’ personal information are used for different uses in different situations. In most cases other examples include data mining, computer matching, and computer profiling.
References
Baase, S. (2008). A gift of fire: Social, legal, and ethical issues for computing and the Internet (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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