Thus the card companies are all experimenting with different uses for the card, like electronically storing supermarket coupons and frequent-flier rewards.
The controversy over the police's database has dimmed since 2010, when a state law barred the department from electronically storing names and addresses of people whom the police had stopped but then released after finding no wrongdoing.
In July, Gov. David A. Paterson signed legislation prohibiting the police in New York City from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the streets but found to have done nothing wrong.
Gov. David A. Paterson will sign legislation prohibiting the New York Police Department from electronically storing the names and addresses of people stopped on the streets but found to have done nothing wrong, several people with knowledge of the governor's intentions said Thursday.
Indeed, the whole business of electronically storing information in a little black gizmo strikes some people as insurgent on the face of it.
Recently, rather than electronically storing clinical materials or processing each data, the needs for discovering meanings from medical big data and utilizing them have significantly increased.
