An 86-year-old artist from Brighton is taking the police to the High Court to try to get records of his political activities removed from their database.

BBC: Brighton activist to challenge police database

Most people in Jersey will have to get a registration card and be added to a population database from 2012.

BBC: Jersey politicians vote for population database

You can get the information yourself online, from the SEC's Edgar database, if you don't mind slogging through a haystack of electronic paperwork to find the needle.

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In Drupal Gardens, users will be able to press a button and get a source code version of the Drupal code that runs their site along with the data from the database.

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And a bill in the Senate would require passenger lists to be checked against a new immigration database as well as making it harder for students from countries that sponsor terrorism to get visas.

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At the Mental Health Association of New York State, chief executive Glenn Liebman said the concern is not just veterans who won't get treatment for fear of the stigma of being listed in the state database or who will hide serious issues from their therapists.

WSJ: VA says it won't follow New York gun law

So when I heard about a company that is using artificial intelligence, data scraping, and database calculations as a means to predict what seed varieties a farmer should plant to get the maximum yield from their exact plot of ground, my mind immediately started to ponder how this could be applied to marketers.

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