The event was convened with the purpose of creating a new blueprint for non-broadcast public service media for the UK and beyond.

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Mr Lynch said Dame Anne Owers' review was just the latest in a series of reviews whose common view was that "the prison service is unfit for purpose".

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The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Willie Rennie, said the chief constable of the new police service was to be "stripped of his independence" adding the legislation behind the service was "not fit for purpose" and must be changed.

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Dave Boyce, who works for an Internet service provider in Amsterdam, declared that the ultimate purpose of the camp was to create human and computer networks of activists to defend such policies.

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However, no parental notice and consent is required when an operator collects a persistent identifier for the sole purpose of supporting the website or online service's internal operations, such as contextual advertising, frequency capping, legal compliance, site analysis, and network communications.

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While it was true that such areas offered little economic incentive at present, a public-spirited railroad, it was said, would undertake to provide transportation for the struggling inhabitants, since the prime purpose of a railroad was public service, not profit.

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From 2008 till 2010 Google not only took photographs of streets and houses for its service Google Street View, but also at the same time captured wireless networks within range of the vehicles used for that purpose.

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