According to its latest results statement, WPP made 65 acquisitions last year, of which 53 involved data firms.
The Lancet study involved data from more than 150,000 people whose risk of a heart attack or stroke was less than 10% over the next five years.
If the dispute chiefly involved data mining, rather than eavesdropping, Mr. Gonzales' defenders may maintain that his narrowly crafted answers, while legalistic, were technically correct.
Current and former government officials have said the legal dispute involved data mining, or computer searches of electronic records of telephone calls and e-mail.
Another case involved data from the Transportation Department that The A.P. had requested about the cash-for-clunkers program.
The project has involved data scientists, developers, engineers and art historians from organisations including Microsoft, Delft University of Technology, the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam.
If this episode sounds familiar, well, yes: the now infamous "Facebook study" also involved data collected without informed consent, was also approved under the same human-subjects regulations as ours, and was also published in a prestigious scientific journal.
MasterCard International said yesterday that the account information of more than 68,000 cardholders was especially at risk in a security breach that potentially involved data on millions of customers.
The second phase involved data collection.
Most of the data-processing tasks involved data cleaning.
This involved data from 11 different sites and gamma cameras.
