In relation to data revisions, a member of the committee, Domenico Giannone, has calculated based on the size of previous revisions that the probability that, after revision, GDP in 2012Q2 will be found to exceed GDP in 2011Q3 is about 5%.

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And yet the relation between economic data - which are often imperfect, and can only represent the state of an economy as it was some time in the past - and the future is tenuous at best.

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This is particularly important in relation to the ever-expanding data and information available to companies, which is also discussed in the piece.

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Purser: As you correctly point out, the regulation states that the right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right, but must be considered in relation to its function in society.

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We understand from Epitiro (but have not made any enquiries or carried out any research in relation to this) that the App uses very little bandwidth as it reports on data already present on the phone through its normal background communications within the network.

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This isn't the first time data has been "sonified, " but these processes that might initially seem to have no relation to music, rhythm and melody, actually highlight the patterns in natural phenomena.

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