There are two main foes in consumers' ongoing struggle to preserve their online privacy: companies that collect data and track people's online behavior to sell them things, and law enforcement agencies that collect data and track people to investigate crimes.
The proof of its efficacy will be months away in data that track jobs, inflation and consumption.
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Elberse used its data to track a year's worth of results for the trailers for 33 movies and videogames.
If Groupon truly understood its customers, it would have created data to track their likelihood of referring Groupon to others.
Dr Bridgman said there could have been changes since 2008 but it was important to have accurate data to track changes.
The device consists of a camera, infrared laser to measure distance and a microchip that interprets the data to track people in 3D.
This extra data keeps track of how and where a picture was taken and can spot if a subject was walking or turning.
As I reported last August, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), a Beijing-based nonprofit organization, is using government information and enforcement data to track pollution across China.
The company uses that data to track user behaviors across devices your phone, your tablet, your computers building up a massive database of consumer activity that allows it to then determine how anonymous users are behaving.
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Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.
While its main business is providing financial information, Brooklyn-based Track Data owns, ironically, a stock brokerage.
About that time, says the SEC, Track Data decided to issue its first-ever dividend, which likely would boost the stock.
On Aug. 12, Track Data announced a 22% drop in quarterly revenue, and its stock dropped 32% over two days.
From smart TVs to transparent smart windows, more and more devices are connected to the Internet and deliver and track data.
As the SEC tells the story, Hertz knew in July 2003 that revenue from Track Data's flagship product, MX, which provides market information to professional traders, was declining.
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Shannon Schuyler: Internally, we have launched a series of dashboards to track data from community service hours to carbon emissions that can be analyzed by activity, region, office, sector and staff class.
The Track Data story contains one other interesting element.
For openers, he's the chairman and chief executive--top dog--and majority owner of the company, Track Data (nasdaq: TRAC - news - people ), in whose stock he purportedly trafficked.
On July 11, 2003, the firm's chief financial officer sent an e-mail to all employees, including Hertz, saying there should be no trading in Track Data shares until earnings were announced on Aug. 12.
Third, we urged states to use cutting-edge data systems to track a child's progress throughout their academic career, and to link that child's progress to their teachers so we know what's working and what's not working in the classroom.
Yet, says the SEC, starting on July 16, Hertz sold the entire 54, 650 share-stake of Track Data held in name of two entities, Haor Beacon Fund, a New York nonprofit corporation whose directors included Hertz's wife, and Roxton Enterprises, described as a British Virgin Islands firm owned by Hertz's sister and brother-in-law.
In addition to a 30-day overview of users' app data usage, Onavo Count also gives users individual App Profiles, complete with charts that track weekly data usage and gauges that measure individual app's overall mobile data usage.
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Location information and images of kids collected by phones would be considered personal information, the commission said, as would data that could be used to track device usage over time, especially if that data then informs targeted advertising.
Ohio doesn't track leasing data, but county courthouses have seen a surge in lease filings.
The registries will track patient data and treatment information relevant to a particular condition.
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Online Dashboard: stores and reviews your eating-related data and helps you track your progress meal after meal.
Today, Cisco's biggest wireless customers are retailers who use the company's wireless systems to track shipping data.
Customers say the product helps them better track their data spending and run, test and fix computer equipment.
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