FOR nearly two decades, French investigating judges have been compiling dossiers, gathering evidence and hearing witnesses in an attempt to hold Jacques Chirac to account for his time as mayor of Paris.
What Refresh is doing isn't exactly new — world leaders and diplomats for centuries have relied on briefing books and dossiers for gathering information about the people they're meeting.
So really, forget the futuristic Borg: this ceaseless data-harvesting brings to mind the dossier-gathering attention to detail of the Stasi.
Surely many people are less likely to support their local bookshop if they felt the bookseller was gathering a dossier on them?
Her piece is a reminder that Facebook's practice of gathering digital dossiers for commercial purposes didn't happen at all once but as a slow creep that overwhelmed — or waited out — objections that Facebook was misleading the public or undermining people's privacy.
The online campaign organisation Avaaz, which has been involved in gathering evidence, says it plans to hand over a dossier to the UN human rights council for investigation.
The evidence of this, he said, was the dossier of news clippings and other papers documenting his activism that the immigration authorities had acknowledged gathering on him.
I was gathering experience.
Begin gathering the mail.
