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'Snake Oil' and his crew figure your data are their data, and they can do anything they want with them.

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  1. plural noun Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
  2. plural noun Computer Science Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  3. plural noun Values derived from scientific experiments.
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  • 'Snake Oil' and his crew figure your data are their data, and they can do anything they want with them. —  AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
  • Law-enforcement types act as if having this data will be a magic bullet, but simply increasing the volume of retained data -- then having to mine through it -- will only make their jobs by yogi - Mar 31st, 2009 @ 1: 43am —  Techdirt
  • While everyone panics, I'd like to point out - your data is already for sale. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Of course, the data was also accompanied by a downward revision of the January data from a decline of 1.9 percent to 3.5 percent. —  The American Prospect Articles
  • See how the data is at the beginning of each partition? —  LinuxQuestions.org
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