One note stresses that GCHQ employees' conditions of employment state that "unauthorised entry to computer records may constitute gross misconduct".
Fifth, data were checked for consistency and completeness before entry to computer software for analysis.
"If we treat the entry to our computers the way we treat our own front doors and decide who to let in ourselves, we'll have a better online experience," said Susan Crawford, an assistant professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, and a participant in the project.
Other edits by lobbyists range from a computer in the offices of payday lender Wonga deleting references to "usury" from its entry, to a computer registered to the American multinational Dow Chemical repeatedly attempting to remove a large section from the company's profile detailing "controversies".
The NSA has planted most of the software through getting access to computer networks, but has also used a secret technology that allows it entry even to computers not connected to the Internet, the Times said, citing U.S. officials, computer experts and documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The attackers first installed malware — malicious software — that enabled them to gain entry to any computer on The Times's network.
Data entry to a computer database was performed by a qualified person.
Overall, work practices did not become "paperless" or even "paper light": note taking while with the patient was still most often done on paper sometimes on the back of scraps of used paper with data entry to the computer systems done retrospectively (though this depended again on the maturity of the system in question).
This effectively denies entry to anyone without computer access, which means a not-small number of New Yorkers.
Local news organizations could report that a parent was under investigation as a pedophile, he said, "all resulting from an unwarranted and illegal entry to your private computer".
