Intelligence gathering, a crucial tool in counter-terrorism, is still patchy, because different branches are reluctant to share information with each other.

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Children are now seen and spoken to alone and records are now held by all agencies, who share information with each other.

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These separate chunks of code often share information with each other.

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It does mean, though, that knowledge workers can easily share important information with each other, and most importantly provide right answers to customers.

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Today, millions of people want to share that exact same information with each other.

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In fact some employers go so far as to not permit workers to share wage and salary information with each other.

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Additionally, the programme will allow Iraqi water engineers across the country to share information on groundwater resources with each other quickly and efficiently.

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M2M simply means that two machines (or devices) have the ability to communicate with each other or share information.

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