'databases' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a collection of information that is organized in a systematic way so it can be easily accessed, managed, and updated. For example, "The company uses a variety of databases to store customer information."
XKeyscore An NSA program that allows analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats and browsing histories of millions of individuals, with no prior authorisation.
The scale of this technological achievement is admirable, the logic behind it clear; but all this impressive architecture has been built without any political discussion about whether this is the right thing to do, or any endorsement from millions of members of the public, whose personal lives are now being recycled through giant databases.
That our government admits most of those in the databases are unlikely to be of intelligence value… shows just how off-course we really are".
The unnoticed rewriting of a key clause of the Computer Misuse Act has exempted law enforcement officials from the prohibition on breaking into other people's laptops, databases, mobile phones or digital systems.
This legislation also includes the "right to be forgotten", where we could be removed from charitable databases for ever.
Had it rejected the bill Idaho would have lost access to federal tools and databases, as well as $46m in federal funding.
A country that can't hire enough auditors to keep up with business taxes is also unlikely to pay enough people to sift through databases of tax IDs from registered receipts that live, crumpled, in the pockets of forgetful citizens.
JIEDDO also retains access to "hundreds" of databases maintained by US intelligence agencies, Small said, but cannot task those agencies to collect intelligence for JIEDDO.
Here are some key things we learned: The reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency], etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want.
Mayer-Schönberger says that if everything about us is kept on internet databases, the effect, while not as drastic as in Price's case, is nevertheless similar.
The databases are used by the security service to establish to establish links between individuals that that MI6 "might be able to exploit".
