The phrase "act of collecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process or activity of gathering items, information, or data.
Example: "The act of collecting rare coins has become a popular hobby for many enthusiasts."
Alternatives: "process of gathering" or "activity of accumulation".
Yet readers can sometimes react negatively to the very act of collecting the information.
Under German law, the mere act of collecting personal data without an individual's permission, whether it be geographic location or Web traffic, is illegal.
Nagle's interests lie more with the trash collectors than with the trash, although the two intersect on the subject of "mongo"—sanitation lingo for "redeemed garbage" or the act of collecting it.
In the final program, Marilynn Gelfman Karp, the author of "In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting" (Harry N. Abrams, 2006), will speak about the urge to collect on Oct. 25.
And so covering the SlutWalk, which began so joyously, with funny costumes and shouting at preacher-men in tracksuits until they looked as if they were going to cry, becomes the act of collecting the testimony of rape survivors.
Nagle's interests lie more with the trash collectors than with the trash, although the two intersect on the subject of "mongo" — sanitation lingo for "redeemed garbage" or the act of collecting it.
Much of the debate over whether the state does conduct mass surveillance comes down to a central question - does the act of computers collecting information constitute surveillance or does it take a person reading or accessing that data for someone's privacy to be invaded?
They have turned walkways into mud lakes and made difficult or impossible the simple acts of collecting and cooking food, washing clothes, staying clean and avoiding disease.
The government relies on a provision of the Patriot Act to collect the call records of hundreds of millions of Americans — the vast majority of them, needless to say, not suspected of having done anything wrong.
Perhaps the point is indeed not to show anything, perhaps the act of making the photograph, of collecting gear, and of prowling the streets is the chief impulse driving this genre of photography?
The N.S.A. continues to use Section 215, named after a part of the Patriot Act, to collect metadata on hundreds of billions of U.S. phone calls.
