The most remarkable thing about the response to Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp is that pundits seemed more worried about Mark Zuckerberg's bank balance than the potential implications for the public of one company controlling such a vast amount of user data.
Apple's HealthKit (supported by Withings and most other activity trackers) is busy soliciting participants for clinical studies and recording a vast amount of data from users of the Apple Watch as well as other bands.
With about 128 million Americans and 699 million people worldwide visiting the site on any given day, the company contends that it has become a mass medium with something that television does not have: a vast amount of information about its users that can be used to finely target advertising pitches.
There are a vast amount of combinations of CT parameters for users to choose from which produce varying blends of image quality and dose, some of which may be manufacturer specific.
There's been a proliferation of photo sharing apps tied to Twitter, including TwitPic, Twitxr (review), and Yfrog (review), giving users a vast amount of choice when it comes to image sharing on the popular micro-blogging service.
It makes users uninhibited, leading to a vast amount of violence and is also quite likely to cause dependence, so about 10% of users get locked into addiction.
In another email to Zollman from that August, Barr talked about the potential for gathering a vast amount of information from a single Facebook user.
Likewise, Quorum's founders have figured out how to pull from a vast amount of data available at Congress.gov to show users which legislators are most effective.
In these studies, the users have to work with a vast amount of information, which implies the development of systems oriented to improve the analysis of the data and to automatically extract information using databases [ 8].
The other 98% languish, with no one benefiting from the persisting copyright, while all users of the public domain lose a vast amount of available work.
