11.   A previous state law required financial institutions to obtain permission before sharing data.

12.   Accompanying this warm-up for the Scholastic Assessment Test is a survey asking students for their life history and for permission to share the data with colleges.

13.   After a meeting early this year in Ouagadougou, elephant specialists from the region agreed to begin sharing data on the animals.

14.   Agree to share your data for a set period of time and for a defined fee, in kind or money.

15.   But because Toysmart had stated that it would never share customer data with third parties, the FTC promptly sued.

16.   But customers would have no say in how their private data was shared between the affiliated companies of the financial conglomerates that are expected to be created.

17.   But as the exchange standard gets perfected, companies soon may be able to share personal data easily.

18.   But IBM says its primary target is Lotus Notes, a market-leading program that allows users to communicate and share data on a computer network.

19.   But legislators like Bowen fear chains eventually will find the temptation irresistible to sell or share data.

20.   But Microsoft sees its future as increasingly dependent on the rise of Web services, whose communications protocols allow the software of many vendors to share data and interoperate.