What they do is they collect everything that might be interesting to them — which includes basically a five year backlog of all the activities of citizens in the U.K., for example by the collection of their metadata records, which is who they call, the locations that they travel where their cell phones are associated with towers".
In 2010, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, an organization that purports to "ensure a safe and sound national banking system for all Americans," cited HSBC for deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering controls, for maintaining a backlog of some 17,000 alerts to suspicious activity on accounts and a "failure to monitor" $60 trillion in wire transfers.
In terms of risk, this can occur in operations from many areas whether it is a piece of equipment that is not working, a backlog of safety-critical maintenance, or particularly risky activity.
Specifically, the partners seek to identify new mechanisms of chemical activity in cells, to prioritize the backlog of untested chemicals for more extensive evaluations, and to develop better predictive models of human response to toxicants.
As long as we have a backlog of work, and we always do, time spent on any other activity is a cost.
On top of these machine learning and big data strategies, GFW is amassing a backlog of evidence to cross-check what it believes might be shady activity by vessel operators.
"We find this decision to be unacceptable and instead we believe the Solicitor's Office should apply only proportional cuts to this program activity, so that efforts can be maximized to reduce the backlog of mine safety cases".
The union has also said it has halted many of its activities on behalf of its members, resulting in a backlog of grievance hearings and other matters.
At the time, the company boasted that it was in so much demand that it had a backlog of contractual commitments collectively worth $31 billion, equivalent to roughly two and a half years' activity.
