Speaking to reporters earlier in the day, Mr. Shinde said that the government had general "intelligence" information but nothing specific.

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A. I would need a bit more information to give a precise answer here but we can have a general look.

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Without such information, Mr. Oster might have developed a general theory, but he would not have had any way to deduce which of the possible permutations actually exist on earth.

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But opt-out is permitted when sites gather marketing and demographic information that paints a general portrait of a user, such as age group or salary range.

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Facebook would not officially comment, but in general seems willing to allow behaviors that fall within its terms of use for users sharing information about themselves.

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"It is no longer a time for expansion but for efficient use of existing resources, " says Sasaki Katsumi, director general for policy and information at the metropolitan government.

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The general public may be only vaguely aware of the mushrooming growth of information-gathering, but when they are offered a glimpse, most people do not like what they see.

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Machine learning distills the raw information about the behavior of each individual customer and creates associations that are accurate, but general enough that a campaign based on those associations has a good chance of success with a substantial group of people.

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Detailed information about the school's performance against others and national averages are available too, but not for general release at the moment.

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