The agency says the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state partnership that coordinates bay restoration efforts, will decide how the information will be used.

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Rob Jackson, chairman of the panel that coordinates the state's Amber Alert program, which is designed to quickly disseminate information about abducted children.

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But even David Gross, who coordinates information policy at the State Department, emphasized that any solution would have to be flexible, because the internet is changing every day.

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So, for instance, in "World of Warcraft, " the coordinates of your character are part of the state that your machine controls.

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We've set up a violent crimes task force that is up and running, and coordinates between the FBI and all the various local and state agencies.

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