As early as 1997, it started capturing data about members of its Harrah's Total Gold programme, including their gambling behaviour.
Mrs Aigner fired her slingshot after Facebook had said it might send data on members to hand-picked partners such as CNN and Yahoo!
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American Express stresses that it does not share data on its members' spending habits with Foursquare.
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Facebook makes its money on highly targeted advertising that's based on the plethora of data that its members share on the site.
With a family data plan, users are forced to share data with other members of their household who are on the same monthly plan.
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There will be lots more: Social media companies aim to attract more ad dollars by offering to mine profile data of their members so that marketers can target their ads.
Then, just this year, a special division was formed that includes members with data-analysis expertise as well as criminal investigators.
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Whether measured by fundraising data or by the members of Congress elected from the ZIP Codes where they live, the elite centers with the most clout in the culture are filled with people who are embarrassed to identify themselves as capitalists, and it shows in the cultural effect of their work.
During their sea voyage, team members will obtain data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology.
WebMD has terrific information about side effects but offers its pricing data mostly to health plan members.
"While we have yet to see the hard data, some of our members saw a reduced level of hospital discharges to skilled nursing centers, " he said.
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In developed markets, one path to better engagement with users could be through new features that make use of Facebook's vast quantities of personal data about each of its members.
As a social media property, LinkedIn has to walk a fine line between offering a free repository for its members' personal data and exploiting that data so it can continue supporting the free service.
Dr Farley believes that if fed data on the number of members of a network who have been apprehended, an ordered-set model can give the authorities an estimate of the probability that the network has been disrupted.
Mr el-Badri accepted that members had disagreed over data on supply and demand.
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In early July, German data protection officials in Hamburg announced the start of legal action against Facebook, accusing it of gathering data belonging to non-Facebook members.
Its best-known customer (and majority-owner) is Tesco, a British supermarket with a Clubcard loyalty-card scheme that generates a mind-numbing flow of data on the purchases of 13m members across 55, 000 product lines.
For its salary survey it went beyond its members and combed through data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and a master set of data developed by a compensation measurement company called Job Search Intelligence.
In preparing for the July 2010 meeting of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, the FDA sought to provide the committee members with all available data relevant to the cardiovascular safety of rosiglitazone.
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Its employer members tend to be large companies, but for its salary surveys it goes beyond its members and combs through data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and a master set of data developed by a compensation measurement company called Job Search Intelligence.
Bryant Webber and colleagues analyzed autopsy reports and available health data from 3, 832 service members who died of combat or unintentional injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq and compared their findings to similar studies performed during the Korean and Vietnam wars. 8.5% of the newest group had evidence of coronary atherosclerosis, compared with 77% in the Korean War group and 45% in the Vietnam War group.
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This led to objections from privacy organisations, members of Congress and European data protection authorities.
Criticism of ATLAS from the FDA and the advisory panel members had focused on missing data from the ATLAS trial.
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Directors Desk enables its users to hold online board meetings where pivotal corporate data is shared among the attending board members in .pdf format.
Click on any of those members of Congress, and data pops up about their voting record, public statements on the bill, contact information and campaign contributions.
The ACLU campaign to change the law comes after the group asked members last year to seek data about themselves from big Web firms using the 2003 law designed to help shed light on direct-marketing practices.
Sickweather's chief operating officer and co-founder James Sajor says their site is different because it has developed "robust" algorithms to scan Twitter and Facebook for relevant data to add to that generated by members of its own community.
The search giant's health management portal also paired with dozens of other services (a heaping handful can be seen in the image above) to aggregate and track all of your data, and share it with family members, friends, and doctors.
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Other data suggest that senior teams with more female members are more successful than those without much female representation.
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