Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.

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This is being done by having an observer in an intensive care unit monitor and record on a computer the communication between patients and medical staff and relatives.

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All I want is more reliable and more widely accessible data, and for better communication between the various organizations that monitor oil production.

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These rare forms are examples of what Dr Wolfe calls viral chatter, a term borrowed from intelligence agencies which monitor telephones for the use of certain words or unusual patterns of communication.

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It allows the NSA to monitor U.S.-based communications so long as one end of the communication is overseas.

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