Instead, they were generated by software that taps into external public data about you.
Meanwhile the government's drive to free up public data has hit a few roadbumps.
We grew total market share in the third quarter according to the most recent public data available.
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And web developers have to find ways of ensuring that the public data being released are used effectively.
Developed economies are awash with public data to be crunched and pored over by analysts and market researchers.
An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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By reselling their public data, Twitter is the first social service to monetize its raw data in this way.
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Large capacity HDDs using this technology will find uses for near line content libraries, cloud storage environments and public data centers.
Public data, unearthed and crunched admirably by IndiaSpend, reveal that upwards of 47, 000 police are deployed for VIP protection nationwide.
Twitter has been the dominant force in Social TV (at least from a public data point of view) and it grew organically.
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Campaigners have pressed for a wide range of public data, from mapping information to MPs' expenses, to be made available on the web.
The centers allow authorities to tap thousands of law-enforcement data sources, along with public data such as information from credit agencies, said Mr. Sena.
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This includes not only classical and traditional literature, but also public data and official information produced and voluntarily made available by governments or international organizations.
Stock performance of public data-center companies had been strong until recently.
The commission had been inundated with complaints that the company was making public data about its users that it had said would be kept private.
With its own tab in Salesforce.com, it builds a social graph of your social and physical networks augmented with public data from Zoominfo and other sources.
Finally, within eighteen months, DoITT will work with each agency to post a compliance plan, describing all of the public data sets in each agency's possession.
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The chancellor promised his audience nothing less than a revolution in the way the government planned to open up public data kept private for so long.
Dark Reading covered a talk at SOURCE on tracking GSM cell phones using a variety of public data, cell tower triangulation, and voicemail hacking techniques.
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As before, a store can see public data users attach to their profile, such as name, profile photo, home city, bio, and links to Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist known for inventing the world wide web, remembered Swartz as someone who wanted to change the world to make public data open to the public.
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The service also runs on data centers and other infrastructure that uses either Microsoft Windows of Linux the latter likely to be the core of any IBM public data center.
Each company essentially works the same way: They feed public data, mostly from Twitter, but also from sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, into secret formulas and then generate scores that gauge users' influence.
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In any case, as Dr Church points out, there are myriad ways, ranging from hacking by miscreants to clever cross-referencing of public data and health records, that supposedly private genetic data could become public.
But the Internet may not help count people who do not traditionally respond to the census, said Stephen Dienstfrey, past president of the Association of Public Data Users and co-chairman of the APDU's policy committee.
It is a telling irony that what China is compelling its citizens to do to by law sacrifice their anonymity is being compelled in the West through Facebook and Foursquare, the very source of the public data feeds for Girls Around Me.
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It has a relatively decent default rate of under 10%, and rejects 70% of applicants after tapping into thousands of piece of public data on each one as part of its uniquely automated lending process, to make sure it picks people who will pay it back.
Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
GMI, based in New York and recently merged with the Corporate Library, a governance research firm, rates the practices of more than 4, 100 companies by examining pertinent public data, including regulatory filings, company websites and news services, to see how well they follow securities regulations, stock exchange listing requirements and various corporate governance codes and principles.
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