Sentences with phrase «analytica collected»

Just a few months later, Cambridge Analytica collected another major feather in its hat when it propelled Donald Trump into the White House, mostly on the backs of smart usage of social media data, the majority of which was collected from Facebook.

Since reports surfaced that controversial political data firm Cambridge Analytica collected data from 50 million Facebook users, the social media giant has found itself in the line of fire, trying to answer for the many concerns of its users.

Last month a whistleblower revealed that Cambridge Analytica collected Facebook user data using a free game.

Following revelations that Trump consultant Cambridge Analytica collected and exploited the data of tens of millions of Facebook users without their permission, the company took a massive hit, losing about $ 40 billion in market value on Monday morning.

No laws were broken when Cambridge Analytica collected the data of 50 million Facebook users and used it to influence the election for president of the United States.

According to reports by the New York Times and the Observer, a research firm called Cambridge Analytica collected millions of Facebook users» personal information without their consent — and people are mad.

After several days of silence, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally issued a statement about the recent reports that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica collected data from millions of Facebook users.

But wait, there's more: In a related story on March 17, the New York Times reported that Cambridge Analytica collected private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without permission, in what it described as «one of the largest data leaks in the social network's history.»

Over the weekend, we learned that Cambridge Analytica collected data from some 50 million Facebook users without their consent back in 2015, a revelation that has led to a public outcry about Facebook's data policies, a tanking stock price and fear of increased regulation.

Cambridge Analytica collected at least $ 6 million from the Trump campaign for its data - analytics work, federal filings show.

Whistleblowers in recent days contend that Cambridge Analytica collected information about users and their friends under a since - ceased policy governing third - party apps on Facebook — then kept that data even after Facebook asked that it be deleted.

Zuckerberg was grilled by lawmakers in Congress last week about how the company protects personal data after reports revealed that political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica collected the information of 87 million users without their consent.

By now, it seems very likely that any data Cambridge Analytica collected could be destroyed or hidden somewhere it will be hard for Facebook to find.

«This is not some breach where some sort of secret data was let out in the wild for the first time,» Ruffini said of the data Cambridge Analytica collected.

A pair of blockbuster reports from the New York Times and the UK's Observer released Saturday explained the scope of the problem: Cambridge Analytica collected the data not only of the approximately 270,000 users who agreed to take Kogan's personality quiz but also their friends, thus harvesting information on tens of millions of people without their knowledge or permission.

The study, which includes data Cambridge Analytica collected from a database of 220 million Americans, also found that iPhone owners have a substantially stronger preference for the Swedish clothing brand H&M than Android device owners.

Aleksander Kogan, the researcher who created the personality quiz app that ultimately led to Cambridge Analytica collecting data on over 50 million American voters, told the press this week that his team thought they «were doing something that was really normal.»

Cambridge Analytica collects data far beyond the political leanings of the individuals in its database.

Those rules led to political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica collecting the information of more than 50 million Facebook users without express permission to do so.

Not exact matches

They got the CEO to admit that Facebook collects data on non-users and that his own data was among the haul grabbed by Cambridge Analytica.

Kogan forwarded the data he collected to Cambridge Analytica.

Cook's and Musk's comments follow The New York Times and The Observer of London's report that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company launched by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, collected users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie previously estimated that more than 50 million people were compromised by a personality quiz that collected data from users and their friends.

In light of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal, messaging app WhatsApp has said it does not collect the contents of user's message and all messages are end - to - end encrypted.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has officially updated its data policy for the first time in years, clarifying a number of details about how it collects and uses its users» personal data.

Aside from hiding from the public the fact that Cambridge Analytica took hold of a treasure trove of user data from Facebook accounts sans their permission, new scathing discoveries now show that the company was collecting other stuff as well.

Cambridge Analytica used this and other data — collected from data brokers and other sources — to fuel its Project Ripon, an effort to win Republican races that was named for the birthplace of the party, Ripon, Wisconsin.

Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic» profiling, meaning they use data collected online to create personality profiles for voters.

Facebook took most of the criticism because of its permissive app permissions model that allowed Cambridge Analytica to collect data from friends of app users, not just the app users themselves.

Facebook also responded by deploying forensic auditors from Stroz Friedberg to Cambridge Analytica's offices on Monday to certify that the UK data analytics firm had, indeed, deleted the data on 50 million Facebook users it collected in 2015.

The data collected by the app reportedly was shared with Cambridge Analytica and used to help the firm build profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to better target advertising to them.

The Times also reported new details on the app used to collect data for Cambridge Analytica.

Giving an update on the investigation yesterday, the ICO said it looking at «how data was collected from a third party app on Facebook and shared with Cambridge Analytica».

«The ICO is looking at how data was collected from a third party app on Facebook and shared with Cambridge Analytica.

In 2014, Cambridge Analytica gained access to the Facebook data of tens of millions of people with a technique widely used during that time to collect information on Facebook users.

The Silicon Valley companies have been under scrutiny for months for the way they collect and use people's data, with Facebook reeling from revelations that the political research firm Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information of up to 87 million of its users.

A former employee of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based data - mining firm with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump, said the company collected the Facebook information of tens of millions of users without their permission.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of 44 senators earlier this month as part of the social network's apology for its shortcomings in preventing political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica from illegally collecting the data of 87 million users.

And Facebook didn't care either — at least not until 2015, when it finally updated its third - party API to block access to the kind of massive data sets that Cambridge Analytica was collecting.

But reporting on Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data to influence elections for specific campaigns dates back for years — including details about how the data was being collected.

Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic» profiling, meaning it uses data collected online to create personality profiles for voters.

That term generally connotes hacking or a technical compromise of some kind, though the Cambridge Analytica situation involves a since - deprecated lax API and a business model that revolves around collecting massive troves of personal data and doling it out in ways often far from transparent to the average user.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

And secondly, once those app developers are operative and have apps collecting personal data what kind of follow up and active oversight steps does Facebook take to give us all reassurance that the type of issue that appears to have occurred in relation to Cambridge Analytica won't happen again.»

The Facebook - Cambridge Analytica debacle is composed of pretty simple facts: Users allowed Facebook to collect personal information, and Facebook facilitated third - party access to the information.

Earlier this week, a whistleblower claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and data analytics firm, had used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.

Facebook profile data was also included, and based on the format of the data, UpGuard suggests this data might have been collected using the social network's search feature that allows users to find profiles based on an email address, a feature that Facebook has recently discontinued in the light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Following the intense media coverage of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the subsequent consequences of third - party firms collecting data on social networking users without authorization, LocalBlox did not appear to take the publishing of the UpGuard report lightly.

The hearings were called after it was learned that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Donald Trump's campaign, had collected the personal data of tens of millions of users without their permission.