Using this method means attackers can harvest data from certain groups of users, rather than having to sift through large amounts of data.
Satellite Sentinel is one of a number of groups trying to gather new kinds of data for public interest work.
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Second, U.S. foreign policy cannot be either effectively conceived or successfully executed on the basis of polling data, focus groups or less sophisticated means of determining in which way the political winds are blowing.
Due to a three-decade-old court decision, the newspaper could only publish data aggregating groups of 10 doctors or more.
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Still, Program Director Andrew Gunther, believes it is possible for them to work with farmers and groups to share some of their data that would benefit the greater good.
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The central assumption of his project was that aggregating the data from these groups would present a picture of violence in El Salvador complete enough to be of use to investigators.
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Of course, making that plan work requires finding groups that are separately working on similar kinds of data.
To find out, they drew on data from two groups of people, one in New Zealand and one in Britain.
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Raikes was straightforward about the need for groups like Gates to make better use of data.
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Some of the original data for this, says Mr Bass, were gained from inviting groups of customers to have their bodies scanned.
Advocacy groups that collect data on bias include examples of slurs and insults in their reports.
We are finding a vision that is really bringing the power of all of our groups to bear, and Big Data is a focal point.
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The annual report uses data from thousands of rivers groups, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen watchdogs to identify waterways under imminent threat by dams, industry or development.
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Most of the projects IBM undertakes involve consulting with community groups as well as city councils, and any data-collecting schemes require the consent of users, he said.
The Washington Post reported that gun control groups are already lobbying to allow compilation of gun ownership data from medical records for research purposes.
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It could be used by consumers or companies, especially organizations such as law firms or health care groups that need a higher level of security for their data.
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EPIC's first petition, signed by four other privacy advocacy groups, points out that Ask uses a piece of data known as a "cookie" downloaded to users' browsers to determine which users have activated AskEraser.
It also requires them to disaggregate their data to reveal the performance of specific groups such as Latino children or poor children.
To get the most business value from the exploding quantities of data requires skills from all of these groups, combining business knowledge, analytical skills, and computer science.
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Community profiles of smaller population groups of the type so commonly released now by the Census Bureau with data from the American Community Survey were not published from the 1940 Census during days of World War II.
And really smart sales managers know that the best use of these systems is using the data to manage their sales groups.
One intriguing finding, when comparing the limited set of data on prisoners with people from similar racial and economic groups outside cell walls, is that the prisoners appear to be healthier.
In contrast to that stolen by hacktivists, about 35% of data pilfered from large companies was taken by organised criminal groups which wanted to sell it or use it to commit another crime.
Experts with time and resources: The bureau points out that they devote their jobs to parsing terms and disclosures, studying mountains of data and having deep discussions with consumer advocacy and banking groups alike.
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So Twitter began working with polling groups and Topsy to look into the political data buried in the din of constant online chatter -- they wanted a better way to measure the sentiment voters were expressing in real-time.
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The goods and services under inspection--including housing, transportation, food, leisure and household supplies--are representative of executive spending patterns, and the selection of the cities reflects the request for corresponding data from the groups that use the study's findings.
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And where data management and analysis was once a job for IT specialists, now it is more commonly seen as an everyday part of line-of-business operations: in our new survey, 95 percent of respondents told us that their dedicated data analysts work within business groups rather than in the IT department.
You have a huge grouping of consumer data, so you can micro-target messages to common groups, finding pleasure points and anger points on issues.
It made my Facebook friends angry, judging from their status updates, deletion of data, and the organization of Boycott Facebook days (via Facebook groups, of course).
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