Government agencies and the public have used this information to pressure businesses to clean up their act.
The availability of information and the pressure for transparency is raising new political issues which we have not had to confront before.
That gives platforms like Reddit and Facebook more influence in the spread of information and the pressure put on the media to cover and dig into certain topics.
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The frantic afternoon presented another example of news organizations being embarrassed by a race to report information under intense competitive pressure.
Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is.
A. interrogators, under great pressure to produce information, assume that the prisoners under their control must be guilty of something.
The view from London and Washington is likely to be that this is more evidence of Iraq's strategy to release information only when it is under pressure.
There had been pressure to release the information since the Bristol Royal Infirmary baby heart death scandal, when surgeons with higher than average death rates continued to operate on children.
According to Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, once you have established the right to control one category of information on the Internet, the pressure will be on the government to apply it to other areas.
Traditional estate agents must, for example, ensure information about properties is accurate, no pressure is put on customers, and an effective consumer complaints procedure is in place.
Here's how it works: a user's gear (helmet, shoes and gloves) is outfitted with sets of motion and pressure detecting sensors that track information based on its wearer's motions.
Peter Moore, president of EA Sports, part of Electronic Arts, a games company, says that some gamers like to recreate what they see during live NASCAR races in video games, using online information about speed, drag, tyre pressure and so forth to recreate, in a virtual world, the real-life action.
The cost of the trees' rental was publicised earlier this month following a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Taxpayers' Alliance pressure group.
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, called the obstruction charge "weak, " suggesting it was meant to pressure the suspects into providing more information on Tsarnaev.
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, said called the obstruction charge "weak, " suggesting it was meant to pressure the suspects into providing more information on Tsarnaev.
All health plans are under pressure to improve quality through better information technology to communicate with customers and medical care providers while more efficiently and rapidly processing medical claims for health plan enrollees.
"We are very conscious that some people working within government who are decent, honest, people may well have been approached and may well have had pressure put on them to provide information, " he said.
On Thursday, UK Defence Minister Adam Ingram denied the government had put pressure on the intelligence services to distort information about Saddam's alleged weapons program to make a stronger case for war.
Germany has put pressure on Swiss and Luxembourg banks to divulge information about Germans who are avoiding taxes.
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With information about new drugs now disseminated so swiftly, the pressure from patients to get them quickly can only grow.
Labour AM Vaughan Gething called for clearer tariff information from the energy providers as he argued that the pressure to find the best deal was putting an additional burden on the poorest in the society.
As the network of participating countries grows, "it may be that 'bank-secrecy' jurisdictions feel increasing pressure to move toward a growing international consensus on information exchange, " Mr. West added.
That prompts a question: Is this trend really due to the increased importance of information technology, or can it be traced to the increasing pressure in these tough times to justify all corporate expenses?
Finally, spare a thought for those doctors who are responsible for the care of celebrities in the media spotlight, and who may come under intense pressure from the press or others to disclose confidential information.
Information pours in from scoresof sensors that constantly read temperature, barometric pressure and load.
The company operates through the pressure-sensitive materials unit, the retail branding and information solutions unit and the other specialty converting businesses unit.
As I recall Saab (and some other car makers) give more information than others on their door-frame labels about varying tire pressure based on driving conditions.
Markets expect Facebook to go public in the short-term, as its ever-rising number of shareholders puts pressure on regulators to ask management to release more financial information.
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Ms. SETZFAND: People actually look for information when there's a problem, when there's a pressure point.
Beyond information-gathering, Lenddo also uses people's networks to essentially pressure them to pay back their loans.
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