The collection of data from the collar, which occurs every five minutes, should help answer their questions.
The American Civil Liberties Union also said that it has filed a lawsuit over the collection of data from Verizon customers, as revealed by the Guardian last week.
Mr. Ferner said he wanted to clarify German law regarding the collection of data from unsecured wireless networks.
Computer process monitoring involves the collection of data from the factory, the analysis of the data, and the communication of process-performance results to plant management.
The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who first reported the collection of data from Verizon, called the N.S.A. "the crown jewel in government secrecy".
"There is a lot of interest from health service companies that we've talked to in Europe," he said, including a pharmaceutical company that is considering using such devices to automate the collection of data from participants in medical trials.
The research approach involves the collection of data from online databases.
An important component of oceanographic studies is the collection of data from the aquatic environment.
In the previous section, we mentioned the collection of data from various processes in educational establishments.
The method used consisted of an evaluative study and the collection of data from both professors and students.
For the collection of data from sensor nodes, only traffic from the sensor to the sink is needed (upwards traffic).
