"We're all interested in the collection and application of personal data and its consequences for individual rights and social science concepts such as trust and discrimination, " said Dr Ball.

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Mr. Smith has an application to submit his collection for consideration but hasn't filled it out.

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The Music application lets listeners enjoy their music collection with superb quality thanks to incorporated stereo speakers utilizing Sony's audio fidelity.

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However, given the uncertainty regarding the accuracy of the data, and the inability to validate the collection of data, readers should be cautioned in the application of the findings of these manuscripts to clinical practice.

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Measuring its collection of apps against the standards of the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP, Veracode found that only 16% of government web applications were secure, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software.

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The diversity of the collection ranges from photographs, patient letters, admission certificates and application forms.

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For the Mac walkthrough we're not going to use a collection of images like our first example, although with this application, MacOSaiX you can, of course.

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