Sentences with phrase «analytica access to their profile»

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The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for academic purposes, not political ones.

This technique, once widely used but now severely restricted, meant that officials affiliated with the voter profiling firm, Cambridge Analytica, could gain access to basic demographics and the Facebook «likes» of all of the friends of the 270,000 people who downloaded an app called «thisisyourdigitallife.»

Facebook has come under fire after reports that conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles before the 2016 presidential election.

Conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles before the 2016 presidential election.

Cambridge Analytica stands accused of using «unattributable and untrackable» advertising to get Donald Trump elected, of illegally accessing 50 million Facebook profiles, and of much more besides.

According to whistleblower Christopher Wylie, Dr Aleksandr Kogan, a psychology lecturer at the prestigious University of Cambridge, approached Cambridge Analytica and offered access to the profiles of millions of Facebook users and their entire network of friends.

You'd think that somewhere along the line Facebook would have wondered why Cambridge Analytica needed access to 87 million user profiles.

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into how Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, accessed data about 50 million Facebook users, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Facebook increased its estimate of the number of user profiles Cambridge Analytica accessed from 50 million to 87 million.

Zuckerberg's post came following public outcry in response to a report last weekend from The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by the Trump campaign, gained access to private information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their profiles, locations and what they like.

On the company's website, though, AggregateIQ says that it has no connections to Cambridge Analytica or SCL and that it never had access to the reportedly leaked user profiles.

Zuckerberg on Wednesday promised tougher steps to restrict developers» access to user information, his first response to allegations that London - based Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed data to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016.

The information data firm Cambridge Analytica used to create 30 million «psychographic profiles» about voters originally came from a third - party app like FarmVille that users gave permission to access their data circa 2014.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based consultancy gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

While initially it was assumed that the London - based data mining firm gained access to «only» 50 million accounts, for political targeting and psychological profiling, including during the 2016 US election campaign, on Wednesday Schroepfer revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million people, including 71 million Americans.

The world's largest social media network is facing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States about a whistleblower's allegations that London - based consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed user information to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016.

Cambridge Analytica also gets a look at their scores and, thanks to Facebook, gains access to their profiles and real names.

He insisted that Cambridge Analytica did not collect information from Facebook «without users permission,» did not pay people $ 1 to access their Facebook profile, and that Cambridge Analytica did not take advantage of Facebook's default privacy settings.

And we can't forget Facebook: the social media giant recently came under fire over its privacy practices in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to data from some 87 million user profiles, which is used to target political ads and influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

The leaking of Bosworth's post comes two weeks into the scandal over data privacy created by revelations that data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly gained access to as many as 50 million user profiles.

Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, said the firm was able to gain access to the profiles through a paid survey app that promised to conduct personality predictions.

This is similar to Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized access to 50 million users» profile information on Facebook, which did not involve any sort of penetration into Facebook's databases.

UK - based consultancy company Cambridge Analytica has been recently embroiled in a scandal as it allegedly got unauthorized access to millions of Facebook profiles in order to build profiles of American voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election in the US.