What data specifically and exactly is it collecting on any given user, how is that data stored, who has access to it, to whom is it sold or for whom is it aggregated or summarized?
If you don't know exactly what data Facebook collects, or how it's used, that's because you just didn't read and understand the site's privacy policy, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the social media platform.
The F.B.I. declined to say exactly what data had been turned over.
There's confusion about exactly what data the mayor is happy to release on TfL's value for money.
But it is often unclear to web surfers exactly what data are being gathered about them and how this is being used.
What's more, because there is no complete list that can tell us exactly what data the government collects, we will create a new 'right to data' so that further datasets can be requested by the public.
But Viviane Reding, the European commission's vice-president, said that the ruling "is exactly what data protection reform is about, making sure those who do business in Europe respect European laws, and empowering citizens to take the necessary actions to manage their data".
The company has not specified exactly what data was stolen from its servers, but says that the systems accessed contained information including: Credit card and bank account details Full names Postal addresses Dates of birth Email addresses Telephone numbers TalkTalk account information It adds that "not all of the data was encrypted".
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dawn Monaghan from the commissioner's office said: "At the moment we don't think it is clear enough, on the website, or on the information that has been sent out, exactly what data is going to go and what is not going to go.
At a recent conference, it announced details of several important technologies nearing "recommendation status" (W3C-speak for standard), in particular XML (Extensible Markup Language), which enables computers to work out exactly what data on a web article represent and how to process them.Yet the W3C is no longer uncontroversial, because its decisions have more than technical implications.
