Peak areas, peak heights and fragment sizes of each BAC fingerprint profile were collected by ABI's data collection program.
And last year I revealed that the National Security Agency had its fifth data breach in as many years, and classified documents showed that a government data collection program was far wider than first thought and was collecting data on U.S. citizens.
In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began operating the National Violent Death Reporting System, a data collection program with 17 participating states.
An independent board has declared a set of National Security Agency data collection programs both "legal and effective in protecting national security", despite expressing concern about "intrusions" into individuals' privacy.
Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said Mr. Zuckerberg should have explained Facebook's full advertising and data collection program to users.
The Obama administration conducted an e-mail data collection program on the same scale as the phone program, but officials said it was ended in 2011.
The disclosure of two giant data collection programs carried out by the US National Security Agency shows that too many governments still aspire to know too much about too many people.
Concern, and even anger, are growing in Europe over the United States' data collection program and threatening to cloud trade talks and a visit by President Obama.
Meanwhile, big Internet companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are urging the government to publish information on its data collection programs.
We strongly agree and hope that the Senate does not drop its investigation of the data collection program or of Mr. Clapper's behavior.
The aide said: "The House judiciary committee has primary jurisdiction over the legal framework of our nation's intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which includes the bulk telephone data collection program.
