The issue focused on how the government was handling the issue of how it would manage the information it was collecting about Americans' online data, said a senior government official speaking on the condition of anonymity. The official said officials have been working with the data-sharing industry to ensure the data it collects is "secure and data-efficient."

It is the latest in a series of data-sharing programs that are being rolled out by the government and the private sector under data-mining programs such as those being run by