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Since the end of the Cold War, the threat of large scale wars has been substituted by new threats: terrorism, organised crime, trafficking, smuggling, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. To react to them, a security strategy is necessary, but in order to be effective it requires several instruments, including technological tools. Consequently, research and development in the field of security is proving to be an ever-expanding field all over the world.

In the last few years, several public initiatives involving data mining in security research have been proposed both in the USA and in Europe, after a series of European Commission initiatives.

The International Conference on Data Mining started in 1999 and since then has evolved to take into account these new initiatives. In fact, data mining is seen more and more not only as a key technology in business, engineering and science but as one of the key features in security. To stress that all these technologies must be seen as a way to improve not only the security of citizens but also their freedom, special attention will be given to data protection research issues.