This is the plan to store all the nation's telecommunications traffic data in a sort of giant shed where it can be sifted, mined and surveilled by law enforcement.
To listen in to those conversations, and subsequently to see fragments of them pop up in an enormous grid of numbers, is a bit like witnessing people being fed into a giant Hadron Collider: lives churned and turned into statistics, a great big crunching and mashing (to use a favourite word of data analysts), a sort of digital dismemberment.
The goal is to use that data as a sort of business intelligence and apply it to a content creation paradigm that has in the past been more focused on talent.
It is interesting how often we're also hearing mayors talk about data as a sort of confidence booster.
Reports circulated several months ago speculating that the two companies could team up again for the Amazon phone, including packaging the phone with a sort-of data plan tied to Amazon's Prime subscription service.
As you well know, Facebook won the Internet with its app features and new timeline feature, a view of your data that offers a sort of time machine into the distant past.
Refugees United's platform can now also be accessed through unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) - a sort of souped-up text message system that works more like a secure form of chat - and via a toll-free number staffed by multi-lingual operators, as well as online.
The best assessment of the relationships between the four best genetic models was obtained by applying the models to the other data sets as a sort of cross-checking procedure.
Strictly speaking, most users would probably be happy if it were possible to impose universal usage control[31] on data submitted to providers (a sort of "reverse DRM", where end-users get to control how multi-national corporations use their data), but despite Krautheim's efforts[12], we do not believe this will be a reality in the foreseeable future.
Until now, this kind of data was provided as a sort of bonus to customers of Foursquare's other products.
