This tension has already presented significant headaches for US companies looking to collect and use data on European citizens.
Other scientists use data on which genes appear to cause disease or contribute to the risk of contracting it.
Ofsted wants music centres to use data on grades, both musical and academic, on relative poverty and so on.
We use data on protein length and abundance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to parametrize our model.
Then, to estimate their wealth, they use data on night-time light intensity from satellites.
We use data on associations among high school students to measure actual integration.
Both methods use data on the size of inclusions revealed on the surface of sampled areas.
To address these hypotheses, we use data on sibling pairs from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.
For now, Facebook is also carefully authorizing each partner in the Connect program and reviewing how it will use data on Facebook members and discuss the feature publicly.
A recent article in Slate led me to Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, political scientists who use data on Congressional voting to create "maps" of politicians' ideological positions.
Many empirical legal studies use data on plaintiffs' rate of success, because of those data's ready availability and apparent import.
