So is market research into shopping, which now uses extensive face-scanning programmes in order to reveal customers' emotional states.
The processing centres apply a series of sophisticated computer programmes in order to filter the material through what is known as MVR – massive volume reduction.
The bottom line now is that we have to take even bigger hits in some defence programmes in order to achieve a better balance across the new, broader security environment.
The coalition government has tried to improve quality but some firms have merely relabelled existing training programmes in order to obtain taxpayers' money.A deeper worry is that business is going through a particularly dramatic period of creative destruction.
On several occasions, the study noted, VTV even suspended its news programmes in order to carry live coverage of government events, "especially the inauguration of public works".Responsibility for regulating the media now lies with Jesse Chacón, the telecommunications minister.
In my report to the UN on Gender and the Right to Food, I argue that one of the most promising approaches is to attach strong gender-sensitive elements to existing social programmes in order to make these into vehicles for transforming gender roles and empowering women, at the same time as they work to alleviate poverty.
Andrew Warren, director of the Association for the Conservation of Energy, an insulation industry group, last night accused the big six of using "bully boy tactics" to persuade the government to cut energy efficiency programmes in order to maximise their own profits.
With less than a month to go before the election and the economy at the top of Americans' minds, both candidates have apparently forsaken efficiency and thrift, adding lots of new goodies to their economic programmes in order to help those they deem hardest hit.
President Barack Obama has urged a series of reforms to US surveillance programmes in order to guarantee greater openness and oversight.
The LRRD concept links "short-term relief measures with longer term development programmes in order to create synergies and provide a more sustainable response to crisis situations" (Ramet, 2012: 4).
