Security and law enforcement agencies are hoping to acquire powers to make internet service providers warehouse information about what their customers do - information which the providers don't keep because it has no commercial value to them.
And Saylor predicts that warehoused information about each consumer's buying habits, combined with push technology like Broadcaster, will dramatically expand direct selling.
The methodology is based on a conceptual representation of the Enterprise, which is exploited both in the integration phase of the Warehouse information sources and during the knowledge discovery activity on the information stored in the Warehouse.
"With Viador's background being data warehousing, analyzing information within the tool, it offered a pretty powerful reporting feature," he added.
"(The cave is) just a warehouse of information," he said.
This non-profit site, run by the Environmental Working Group EWGG) is an absolute warehouse of information.
"But I don't know a single person in the geek demographic who is not freaked out" by large social networks and cyber warehouses of information.
The civil liberties group has raised questions about how long the police will warehouse the information on cars entering Manhattan, how it will be used and whom it will be shared with.
A set of web operations has also been developed to manipulate the warehoused web information.
Imagine a "Privacee.com" that lets people warehouse personal information and share it later with the highest bidder.
