Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.
Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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The British cabinet was briefed in September about data.gov.uk's ambition to be a one-stop-shop for data collected by the government.
London, England (CNN) -- Google agreed Friday to delete data it inadvertently collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks when compiling its Street View mapping service in Britain, authorities said.
Less reliable are observational studies--where data is collected after the fact from people who decided to take a pill.
As a reminder, the TechStars-run program was designed to encourage companies to use Nike-collected data from devices like the Fuelband and the Sportswatch.
Graham has overcome this problem by using only large samples of data collected by managed-care organizations.
Privacy groups are concerned about how the data collected by Google - and other web firms - could be used to monitor people's online habits.
In the second study, Dr. Michael Thun at the American Cancer Society and his co-authors examined 50 years of smoking-related health data collected by the organization since 1959.
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According to data collected by Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta is located within a two-hour flight of 80% of the US population, making the city a major port of entry into the US and a logical stopover for travel within the expansive country.
Liquid Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup that makes the surfboard-sized robot called a Wave Glider, announced Wednesday that Papa Mau arrived off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 20 after surviving storms, sharks and 25-foot surf while its solar-powered sensor arrays collected terabytes of data on ocean and atmospheric conditions during the year-long journey.
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It bases such decisions on data collected with a point-of-sale system connected to every cash register.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
For retirement wonks, Banerjee presents detailed consumption numbers based on data collected in the long-running Health and Retirement Study, administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
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But Biobank UK said there would be a separate, independent body or committee - responsible to the public, the research participants and other stakeholders - for ensuring that data collected were used responsibly.
Google claims it collected wi-fi data because of rogue code mistakenly included in the software by a lone engineer.
It said it had learned that data had been collected from unprotected Wi-Fi networks and attributed the activity to a single Google engineer.
Another way of getting at the trends is census micro-data (ie, from detailed samples collected as part of the census).
The trove of data is being collected in anticipation of more-complex location services and features on devices that have yet to be manufactured.
Once the victim received a text message that included a certain protocol, the malware would send the collected data back to the command-and-control server.
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Not only are apps obtaining data directly from people's Facebook accounts, some apps are also letting unapproved advertising companies track users, according to data collected from PrivacyChoice, a start-up that offers privacy services.
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
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Levels of dissolved oxygen in deep water have dropped about 20 percent below their long-term average, according to data collected from up to 60 miles from the well at the center of the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Data were collected during spring 2009 using two web-based questionnaires, one for business schools and one for students and recent graduates.
Technology executives in particular had plenty to apologize for this past year--from defective products to slip-ups in how they handled private data collected via the Internet.
"Meanwhile, I welcome the fact that the Wi-Fi payload data that should never have been collected in the first place can, at last, be deleted, " he said.
He says Vytorin should remain "a third-line drug" until more data can be collected, even though the drug is less likely to make patients complain of symptoms like aching.
Last year, the agency forced online advertising company Chitika Inc. to delete data it had collected from people who tried to opt-out but were unaware that Chitika's opt-out expired after 10 days.
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Volvo's U.S. manager of product safety and compliance, Adam Kopstein, says his company's engineers began doing tests to simulate small-overlap crashes in the 1980s after analyzing data collected from car accidents in Sweden and other countries.
The goal of the experiment was to see if GPS-enabled cell phones could improve the way traffic data is collected.
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