Using expensive Internet databases, census reports, passenger lists, graveyards, family Bibles, "even turning over cardboard boxes and tapping people awake on the street, " says Morse, the hunters track down the rightful heirs, many of whom never even knew the deceased.
With customers doing their own ordering and billing through the Internet, databases must be able to handle vast numbers of concurrent users and provide information fast.
One data broker told Congress his company relied on public databases or Internet searches to get personal information.
At Chrysler and John Deere, RWD designed systems that enable dealership repairmen to use the Internet to tap into databases at the parent company for help when they're repairing cars and construction equipment.
The proposed law covers software, multimedia interactive products, data and databases, the Internet and online information.
The names are culled from events and Internet lists and secret marketing databases.
An internet portal featuring the new databases, forums and technical information for experts.
Software now covers a maze of different industries, including applications software, operating systems, databases, the Internet, computer-aided design and networking.
Care to estimate the current market cap value of all business activity related to relatively minor, taxpayer funded government spending that gave us computers, databases, the Internet and biotechnology?
In January, a team of American and Israeli scientists showed they could reconstruct the identity of people from supposedly anonymous genetic samples using readily available databases on the Internet.
Think about how much controversy there is in the United States today, even with the benefit of massive electronic databases and the internet, about the appropriate way to calculate inflation, unemployment and other basic economic statistics.
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They argue that, by asking your name and other minimal identifying information already available on the Internet and in countless commercial and government databases, aviation officials are conducting a Fourth Amendment "search" of your private effects for which they should obtain a warrant based on probable cause that you have committed a crime.
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"We are delighted at the honour bestowed upon Nabanna, " said Falguni Mondol, 35, a resident of Arbelia and a direct beneficiary of Nabanna, which is innovating on web-based databases and information sharing through internet to benefit the poor women of Baduria a remote region in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district which is the pilot site for Nabanna.
"A valid alternative would be to create a single library or repository able to search databases around the world - just like an internet search engine, rather than having one vast library or pass data between each other, " a Home Office spokesman said.
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Those who want privacy are fighting over Internet user identities, cookies, e-mail addresses, databases, and spam.
The system's big databases told Yahoo where people were going on the Internet, because millions used Yahoo for direction.
On the Internet platform, companies get developers by offering them access to big databases they could not afford on their own (such as map coordinates, calendar information or sales tracking information) and letting them build things against it.
The software is designed to search deeper into corporate databases and includes "social Web" features previously found in consumer Internet search products.
The trade in personal data suggests that internet criminals have more or less given up hacking into banking systems and trying to steal databases of customer accounts.
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