Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.

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But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collecting content data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.

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In other words, selecting from among content expressly submitted by users for publication is covered by the CDA but courts have not yet ruled on whether collecting and publishing content that was not submitted for publication would be similarly covered.

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The Seed.com content-farm model, meanwhile, is currently only facilitating one aspect of freelance content production, which is advertising assignments and collecting copy.

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And that means offering both professional and user generated content on the device always with their audience and collecting data about their interests and behaviors.

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Hayden was content to just club the pacemen from a standing position, collecting four boundaries before RP Singh bowled him for 29 off an inside edge.

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The tools for collecting, preserving, monitoring, and managing social media content are evolving.

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There is no guarantee against unscrupulous inspectors clandestinely collecting samples and conducting off-site analysis to glean information on the chemical content of American products and the processes involved in making them.

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