"covert data" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is used to describe information that is deliberately hidden or concealed. For example, "The hacker was able to find covert data in the company's servers."
This is described as "mass covert data capture" in the world of biometrics.
A former Facebook manager responsible for investigating data breaches says covert data harvesting has been a known issue inside the company for years.
Google responded to the Guardian's revelations about the US National Security Agency's Prism covert data gathering programme by saying that it was "not in cahoots with the NSA" and had not given it access to its servers.
The covert data miners at the National Security Agency stole the thunder of the more predictable number crunchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning, when the release of the May jobs numbers drew merely a low rumble.
In this paper, we propose an adversary model for Android covert data exfiltration, and demonstrate how it can be used to construct a mobile data exfiltration technique (MDET) to covertly exfiltrate data from Android devices.
In the U.S., experts say that the FTC is ready to pounce on overly intrusive or covert data collection, citing, for example, a stern warning it recently gave Facebook and WhatsApp the location-based data company it recently scooped up—about their privacy failings.
You're a covert data-collecting program that is able to tap into public sources with or without probable cause.
Police and security services are also governed by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which regulates their use of covert surveillance data.
According to the FTC, the company's covert customer data collection was vast.
Detecting covert information in images by means of steganalysis techniques has become increasingly necessary due to the amount of data being transmitted mainly through the Internet.
The results show that the proposed scheme can provide diversity gain using stego-based MRC at the primary receiver and covert confidential cognitive data communications simultaneously.
