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THE revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing huge amounts of data about Americans' phone and Internet use has sparked a lively debate about the proper role of secret information in a free and open society.

Fast food consumption has sparked health concerns.

The clamor from industry to use drones has sparked safety and privacy concerns about skies buzzing with pilot-less aircraft that are measuring crops, supervising oil rigs, checking traffic, and delivering packages.

Jonathan himself has asked his supporters not to use the hashtag, which has sparked an angry backlash online.

The use of PET scanning has sparked attention in the field of atherosclerosis as the arterial FDG uptake may be an independent predictor of cardiovascular events.

But the shock-factor strategy they have used since the 1980s has sparked a whole wave of "good cause" organisations that have been irresponsible with regard to the images shown to the rest of the world.

Although we know that the use of automatic lawn sprinklers has sparked the surge in water usage in recent years, neither the county nor the towns have adopted programs to license and educate all irrigation system installers and to regulate the amount of water these systems pump out of our aquifers.

4. The use of certain "emotive words" has sparked a debate about journalistic responsibility.

President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to scrap key agreements with the EU last month and then use police force against protesters has sparked the largest demonstrations in the Ukraine since 2004.

Nevertheless, the increase in the use of context-aware technologies has sparked the growth in assistive applications resulting in a need to enable adaptation to reflect the changes in user behaviours.

Forensic DNA technology, increasingly used since the early nineties, has sparked a revolution in the criminal-justice system.