Once the device is infected, malware can collect and send data from the device, such as location information, personal information and login credentials, to untrusted third parties.
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In order to design and run a successful clinical trial, it is crucial for the actual investigators to collect the data themselves and not rely on information gathered by other groups.
The AMS will collect 7 gigabytes of data per second and beam the information down to Earth for analysis.
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Responding to a congressional query, nine data companies provided answers to a detailed set of questions about what kinds of information they collect about individual Americans, and where they get that data.
As organisations create and store more data than ever, they can collect more accurate performance information on everything from product inventories to customer insights.
Google could collect data on what books people read and create a dossier of their political views and other information.
Until then, Facebook is going to continue to grow, will continue to collect more data, and people will continue to hand over more and more of their personal information to a single, private, business.
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When it comes to business information, it is not only about building better systems to collect and analyze data, but also to seek out sources that can add insight to that data.
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With his experience using specialized hardware to collect and transmit data, Brian helped the University of Wisconsin push the boundaries on animal behavioral research by viewing information in real time.
And there's a growing number of companies that now offer to collect huge amounts of data and analyse it as a service, with the promise of helping businesses find nuggets of information that give them a competitive advantage in their markets.
And while many doctors currently collect some information about the health of their patients' families, the data often lack the detail to be clinically useful for assessing risk and prescribing care.
Wave Gliders collect enormous amounts of data and crunch the numbers distilling 4 gigabytes of raw data to a kilobyte of relevant information a client wants, for instance and then activate their Iridium satellite link to beam the result to servers on land.
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The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
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