Robin Thurston, chief executive of MapMyFitness, which offers a group of exercise sites and apps including the popular MapMyRun, said his company had developed a detailed privacy policy explaining how user information was used.
Yet practitioners continued to organize themselves at local levels, being connected through electronic communications, interpersonal networks and group exercise sites.
A Congressional Research Service report on the Keystone XL proposal, published at the end of August, stated, "The federal government does not exercise siting authority over oil pipelines".
Falun Gong practitioners reported having phone lines tapped, homes ransacked and raided, and Falun Gong exercise sites disrupted by public security agents.
Both Falun Gong sources and Chinese government sources claimed that there were some 1,900 "guidance stations" and 28,263 local Falun Gong exercise sites nationwide by 1999, though they disagree over the extent of vertical coordination among these organizational units.
Age, education, body mass index, smoking status, weekly frequency of exercise, sites of data collection, and history of hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease were forced into the models to adjust for potential confounding effects.
Along with the retooled pedometer, manufacturers rolled out a talking heart monitor; GetFit.com, a personalized, exercise Web site; iFit.com, fitness equipment controlled digitally through a Web site; and a Palm Pilot that keeps track of exercise programs and records, among others.
Widely dismissed as an inept propaganda exercise, the site has generated overwhelmingly negative feedback ("Don't need, don't want," runs one pithy post; "A flimsy attempt to make people easier to control", says another).
