The company uses a series of algorithms to cross check personal data such as name, date of birth and voter registered address against publicly held data such as the birth registry, voter lists and passport details.
Not surprisingly, early generation predictive coding tools are far more complex and difficult to use than traditional legal technology tools such as keyword search, concept search, email threading, and data clustering to name a few.
The new RFID tag-toting documents will store all of your personal data, including name, address, nationality, a picture, a digitized fingerprint and just about every other thing crooks would need to take your identity for a joyride.
Users of the Obama 2012 - Are You In? app are not only giving the campaign personal data like their name, gender, birthday, current city, religion and political views, they are sharing their list of friends and information those friends share, like their birthday, current city, religion and political views.
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The system suffers from "high turnover, inadequately trained personnel, bad data--you name it, " McLellan says.
Open Data: the very name is a virtuous pairing of transparency and science.
Michael Bloomberg, evolving as a global name in financial data and now the Mayor of New York City, sat alongside Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
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To illustrate my point, I encourage you to look at the 2006 reimbursement rate data for dactinomycin (brand name: Cosmegen), a sterile injectable used to treat various forms of cancer.
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If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.
When authenticating via social login, the user passes dozens of data fields to you including: name, email, birthdate, hometown, relationship status, political views, interests, activities, work history, religious views and education level.
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After all, Big Data analysis is really just a fancy name for a strainer that concentrates value on the Internet, and I definitely need something like that.
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As its name suggests, it sends data traffic through a series of routers arranged in layers like in an onion to make it difficult to find out who is browsing a site or is behind any particular web activity.
Those customer requests, which are stripped of name, address and other identifying data, are then put up for bidding by some 200 registered lenders.
Merck KGaA, which is distinct from the U.S. company of the same name, will use this new data to try to get Erbitux approved in Europe.
There are some automated valuation tools on the web like valuate.com and estibot.com that use search traffic, backlinks, and other data to appraise the value in the domain name.
As before, a store can see public data users attach to their profile, such as name, profile photo, home city, bio, and links to Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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You can even reassemble the data however you like, adding a new screen name and a different mix of details to drop in on places where no one knows you go.
Google also says much of its data can't be tied to a person by name.
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Furthermore, it can transfer data at unprecedented, lightening fast speeds (hence the name).
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The name for this multi-skilled position is the data scientist, a role that is now being defined at leading companies across the globe.
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My worry is that I depend on LinkedIn, and an increasing number of other companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter to name a few), to make sure my data is safe and not compromised.
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This new name also ushers "personalized plans" with "infinite data, " which C Spire's CEO, Hu Meena, points out is actually unlimited, with no nights-and-weekends-style restrictions -- except when it comes to streaming data (which will carry its own unique charges).
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For example, I can earn 1.2GB of free data by clicking the referral link and signing up for a new domain name at GoDaddy.
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Now the School of One is certainly no panacea, but I do know that the majority of online learning out there does not even begin to contemplate the use of data like School of One does to drive personalized learning, just to name one aspect of what the School of One does that is interesting.
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You know who they are, and have the benefit of using the potentially thousands of data points you have collected about them that are attached to their real world name and their home address.
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Now Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced.
Jefferson Han, the Wall's inventor, has sold a bunch to government agencies he cannot name, as well as to big companies wanting novel ways to visualize data.
As every biomedical scientist knows, GenBank is a free, public database of genetic sequence data that contains millions of sequences, from humans, bacteria, viruses, you name it.
Launching in early 2012, this yet-to-be-name app will allow 800 million Facebook users to pull home energy usage data provided by their utility provider (the non-Oprah-Winfrey-related Opower works with a growing network of more than 60 utility companies across the country) and share it, warts and all, with fellow Facebookers.
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