Now, though, the information itself has started to flow freely.
But now that there are millions of blogs, what was once a solution to the information glut has started to become part of the problem.
She says so many newspapers wrote stories about her based on private information, and has started digging around herself for clues to their origin.
Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber (D) said his city plans to use the information it has started collecting to improve everything from property values to the annual city budget.
And just as the British parliament is investigating claims of phone hacking by Murdoch's News of the World newspaper, the Taliban said their Information and Cultural Commission has started an inquiry into how its communications were hacked.
The team behind share-your-purchase-information startup Blippy has started talking about its new direction.
Much easier access to information through the internet has started to change the relationship between patients and professionals.
The particular challenge in assessment of adults lies in the gathering of reliable information on behaviour that has started before age 7 to establish an ADHD diagnosis.
