Chris: There have been serious efforts like The Americans for Divorce Reform, which basically compiled data on the Internet in one place, and the Covenant Marriage movement.
Agents say 450 people were ultimately victimized, with Mr. Jiang breaking into a number of their bank accounts, opening new ones with their data or selling that data on the Internet.
"I am not going to confirm the alarmist data on the Internet," he said.
Go away and learn how to crunch data on the Internet.
So says a music professor who has applied his ear for subtle changes in pitch to the problem of delayed or dropped data on the Internet.
The problem was reported to the government last week by a farmer in Illinois who stumbled across the data on the Internet.
Now, thanks to the availability of human DNA data on the Internet, and software programs that convert DNA sequences into music, you can find out.
"We treated every 'K' as something precious," he said, using industry shorthand for a kilobit, the standard measure for a piece of data on the Internet.
The practice came under scrutiny last week from members of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission, which regulates the use of consumer data on the Internet.
Businesses worry about the security of storing data on the Internet, in case it gets stolen or cloud computing services break down, as happened with Amazon recently.
At issue is net neutrality, the idea that all data on the internet should be treated equitably, regardless of content or provenance.
