All patient and dispenser interview data were collected using personal digital assistants, and data extracted from study forms (census, registration, and follow-up forms) were double entered into Microsoft Access databases (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA).
Bulk personal data includes information extracted from passports, travel records, financial data, telephone calls, emails and many other open or covert sources.
This analysis used data extracted from 10 provincial health databases linked by a unique personal health services number assigned to individuals eligible for health insurance benefits [ 30].
Data extracted 19 Jul 2016.
Data extracted from maternity and neonatal records were completed directly online, with a secure interface for maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of data and personal information.
The participants of the patient focus groups identified a number of conditions which they felt should be met in the design of a national research register and website to encourage confidence and facilitate recruitment: Some participants wanted more information about the nature of personal data which would be extracted from patient records.
Similarly, botnets are used to transmit phishing scams, which seek to extract personal data from unwary individuals.
Reminder: Facebook's entire raison d'être is to extract personal data from its users.
Which sounds like a rather similar modus operandi to disgraced (and now defunct) data company Cambridge Analytica's use of a quiz app running on Facebook's platform to extract personal data and psychological insights on users (which it repurposed for its own political ad targeting purposes).
Better still, the co-founder Jan Koum, seemed to have a very healthy aversion to the surveillance capitalism that underpins the vast revenues of Google, Facebook and co, in which they extract users' personal data without paying for it, and then refine and sell it to advertisers.
