Together with Data Center Pulse, an association of data center professionals representing individuals from over a 1, 000 companies in 66 countries including Google, Oracle, Twitter and Adobe, eBay began efforts to change the law.

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This more recent data--courtesy of Spending Pulse, the economic research arm of MasterCard (nyse: MA - news - people ) WorldWide--divides U.S. consumer discretionary spending into eight buckets: air travel, e-commerce, electronics, furniture, lodging (as in hotels, not primary residences), apparel, luxury (excluding jewelry) and restaurants.

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It takes about an hour to collect and aggregate the data ( view a demonstration of a light pulse as it travels through an ordinary Coca-Cola bottle).

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Data are beamed back to the surface by electromagnetic pulse or optical fiber.

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In the second part of our Market Pulse Survey, SailPoint set out to answer this question by asking consumers how data breaches are impacting their loyalty to certain companies.

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