In total, 12 recommendations were outlined in a letter signed by 24 of the EU's 27 data regulators, following a nine-month investigation into Google's data collection practices.
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It was only Mr. Casper's persistence that made it possible to challenge Google's data collection practices.
Despite rising privacy concerns, the online industry's data-collection efforts have expanded in the past few years.
Apparently, Russia also shares those worries as the country has produced its own take on the Android operating system minus Google's data collection.
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T-Mobile MyTouch and MyTouch Q: An update is available for these two Huawei-manufactured handsets that allows users to opt-out of CarrierIQ's data collection software.
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It follows a nine-month investigation into the company's data collection practices.
The Data Sensing Lab is the next step in Google's quest to master environmental data collection after absorbing the team behind Behavio last month.
An aspect of the project that wasn't generally known at the time was Google's collection of data about individual wireless networks, including those in people's homes.
That feature--seemingly designed to play up the privacy threat of Google's huge collection of user data--backfired.
"We agree that there is a lot more research that needs to be done, that funding to allow robust research and robust collection of data is what's really going to move the science forward for understanding how we can reduce deaths, " he said.
"We built out a whole customized system, with Salesforce's support, of call tracking, data collection, " the CEO says.
Meanwhile, privacy advocates argue that the bill's exemption for "operational" collection of data--allowing those practices to take place under an "opt-out" rule--gives advertisers far too much leeway.
Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that it is: Because of the company's unprecedented dominance of the search industry and its massive data collection, he says that a little evil from Google goes a long way.
It did, however, introduce other measures intended to improve the fishery's management by reducing illegal fishing, improving the collection of data and introducing a new framework for the presentation of scientific advice.
Even given all that traffic counting, Tancer says he can't use his outsized data collection to answer one major question: the outcome of November's election.
He called on the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) to help developing countries improve data collection and extend access to free medication, as well as midwifery and obstetric care.
Such standards and data collection will take into account the varying security and information environments where U.S. programs operate.
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At this year's annual meeting, former President Bill Clinton emphasized the power of transparency and data collection in mobilizing the fight against climate change.
The library's entire collection of printed books has been estimated to total about 10 terabytes of data (although staff at the library suspect it's probably more).
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"We're excited to introduce the Store 'n' Go, the first portable hard drive in Verbatim's USB 3.0 collection, and allow consumers to experience a significant improvement in data transfer speeds that will let them complete their tasks in a fraction of the time, " said Charles Klinker, Verbatim's Director of Marketing, HDD Products.
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Obama's unsuccessful medical-malpractice bill, co-sponsored with Hillary Clinton, would have mandated a vast data-collection system to track medical errors.
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