Beyond information-gathering, Lenddo also uses people's networks to essentially pressure them to pay back their loans.
At present, it has no formal representation beyond some information-gathering by a Scots-based Bank agent.
It would likely require at least periodic surveillance and information-gathering from a wide range of nonbank institutions.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered his ministers to step up information-gathering and be prepared for emergencies.
Whatever new legal remedies emerge, opting out of information-gathering is bound to become ever harder and less attractive.
For example, information-gathering tools, such as reconnaissance satellites and the associated support systems, require substantial and sustained financial commitments.
What makes these commissioners conclude that the CIA is now capable of running all of our critical information-gathering efforts?
No one doubts the extent of information-gathering and communication features that will be built into the networked cars of the future.
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He later worked at General Magic, an early builder of information-gathering agents.
The Bush administration also complained that the project would stifle tax competition, so the focus was narrowed to better information-gathering and exchange.
The engineering wizards who have fueled the Information Revolution through the use of satellites as communications and information-gathering tools also overlooked the pollution they were causing.
So the hyper-individual trend is about people learning and applying new methods of choice, efficiency, self-monitoring, data tracking and information-gathering in their everyday lives.
The announcement also appeared to embrace a recommendation by U.K. financial institutions for reduced information-gathering requirements on investment accounts that aren't marketed to U.S. investors.
Xinhua quoted a State Council circular as saying that the regulations were meant to "safeguard state sovereignty" while promoting the "healthy development" of local information-gathering capabilities.
The general public may be only vaguely aware of the mushrooming growth of information-gathering, but when they are offered a glimpse, most people do not like what they see.
Therefore, consumers will have to motivate businesses to adopt good business practices by gravitating toward companies and websites that explain their information-gathering practices in clear English and abandoning those that don't.
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The inspector general also concluded that poor internal information-gathering and communication at the justice department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) caused them to misinform Congress about the operation.
The latest sign of this is the report, released this week, of the United Nations information-gathering mission, headed by a former Portuguese president, Mario Soares, which was sent to Algeria this summer.
If so, that would appear to cross the line from simple information-gathering by people outside a company to sharing of potentially material information by employees who have a duty to keep it confidential.
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Military surveillance aircraft scoured the battlefield -- from the lowest-flying aircraft such as the Army's Hunter and the Marines' Pioneer, to the Predator, to the higher-flying Global Hawk and U-2 -- and on up to the information-gathering satellites.
We have to ensure that protocols that have been in place and developed since -- for many, many years, don't prevent either information-gathering or information-sharing so that somebody that's on the TIDES list can't go to the screening -- the database screening list and ultimately to selectee and no-fly.
When people are not seeking it - like when they are gathering information on the internet or quickly purchasing a coffee - it can be quite irritating.
Oshima was sure consumers would take to the sort of U.S.-style mini-labs he'd been gathering information about, where film is developed quickly on-site for a small premium.
The committee also authorized Leahy to subpoena Rove, but in June, two Democratic congressional sources said they decided not to issue a subpoena for him because they are building their case by talking to and gathering information from lower-level witnesses and officials before they get to the more senior, more important witnesses.
It mentioned the widespread criticism Google faced and the fines it had to pay after it inadvertently scooped up data from unprotected wi-fi networks while gathering information for its Street View service.
On the other hand, some information must be protected from public disclosure for the sake of our security -- for instance, the movement of our troops, our intelligence-gathering, or the information we have about a terrorist organization and its affiliates.
Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.
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After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
The process starts on the intelligence-gathering side, where a tremendous flood of information pours into the National Counterterrorism Center, a clearinghouse agency created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and run by the director of national intelligence.
Dr Brilliant, who is now the head of Google's philanthropy arm, made his wish known at the Technology Entertainment Design conference, an annual gathering in California of leading entrepreneurs and thinkers from the information-technology and entertainment industries.
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