Sentences with phrase «analytica had access to data»

Roose: There were reports as far back as 2015 that Cambridge Analytica had access to this data set.

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Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the data breach, said that the ICO and Electoral Commission must have unfettered access to Cambridge Analytica.

In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook users» data for academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.

In recent days, a series of reports have detailed how Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining firm, gained access to personal data on 50 million Facebook users and relied on it as part of its work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.

It has also said it never entered into a contract with Cambridge Analytica, nor has it ever had access to Facebook data allegedly obtained improperly by Cambridge Analytica.

According to a statement on its website, «AggregateIQ has never managed, nor did we ever have access to, any Facebook data or database allegedly obtained improperly by Cambridge Analytica.»

«Cambridge Analytica is the big story on the topic, but there have been numerous stories about Facebook either selling user data or giving third parties access and using it to help advertising,» Mr. Deason said.

Social network Facebook Inc. has restricted access to its application programming interface (APIs) after it was revealed that the Cambridge Analytica data breach has affected 87 million users, globally, beating the initial estimates of 50 million.

But the news that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, was able to gain access to private data through the social network has sparked an unusually strong reaction among its users.

Zuckerberg explained that the roots of the Cambridge Analytica data access date back to 2007, when Facebook launched a platform «with the vision that more apps should be social» that would allow users to log into apps and share who their friends were and their information.

But copies of the data extracted by Cambridge Analytica exist to this day, according to the Times, whose reporters had access to raw data from the breach.

Firefighting the raging privacy crisis, Zuckerberg has committed to conducting a historical audit of every app that had access to «a large amount» of user data around the time that Cambridge Analytica was able to harvest so much data.

The app permissions that led to 87 million Facebook users» data being harvested and sold to Cambridge Analytica may have also allowed access to those users» inboxes, the company confirmed today.

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have flocked to their Facebook privacy settings to sever their connection to third - party apps that they no longer wanted to have access to their data.

News that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users has weighed not only on the shares of Facebook but on Alphabet as well.

The firestorm that erupted over Facebook's decision to ban Cambridge Analytica — and the ensuing revelations that the user data of 50 million Facebook users were accessed by the political consulting and marketing firm without those users» permission — has slashed Facebook stock and brought calls for regulation for social media companies.

Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...

Because Facebook claimed that the Cambridge Analytica incident was not a «data breach» in the legal sense, it has not provided notice to users whose data was accessed; the company has promised to change that and notify all affected users.

She said that on Tuesday morning she would be applying for a warrant to access Cambridge Analytica's databases and servers to «understand how data was processed or deleted by Cambridge Analytica — there are a lot of conflicting stories about the data.»

As tremors from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal continue to reverberate, the social network has made it clearer for users to access and control their data privacy settings.

As tremors from Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal continue to reverberate, the social network has made it clearer for users to access and control their data privacy...

Dimon was responding to a question about advice he'd give Facebook as the social media giant deals with the fallout from reports that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, was able to access data on 50 million users beginning in 2014.

Facebook has suspended about 200 apps that had access to large amounts of user data four years ago, part of its internal investigation in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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.

At the time, the company had access to Facebook data that had been obtained by a researcher for academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook executives said last week.

The demands came in response to news reports Saturday about how the firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a feature once available to Facebook app developers to collect information on 270,000 people and, in the process, gain access to data on tens of millions of their Facebook «friends» — few, if any, of whom had given explicit permission for this sharing.

But the news that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, was able to gain access to private data through the social network has sparked an unusually strong reaction among its users.

And it appears to have cut Cambridge Analytica off from further access to its data.

The firestorm that erupted over Facebook's decision to ban Cambridge Analytica — and the ensuing revelations that the user data of 50 million Facebook users were accessed by the political consulting and marketing firm without those users» permission — has slashed Facebook stock and brought calls for regulation for social media companies.

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have flocked to their Facebook privacy settings to sever their connection to third - party apps that they no longer wanted to have access to their data.

AggregateIQ has never managed, nor did we ever have access to, any Facebook data or database allegedly obtained improperly by Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook's data access changes are a response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed that a data firm had collected data from 87 million Facebook users without their consent.

The Facebook Container add - on is one of several steps Mozilla has taken to distance itself from Facebook following the disclosures that Cambridge Analytica gained access to 50 million users» data without permission during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The bigger picture: Before Zuckerberg spoke to reporters, Facebook announced a crackdown on third - party access to its data and said that up to 87 million users» information might have been passed along to the Trump - linked Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook has been enduring a crisis of trust ever since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge.

But the first thing that we need to do is complete our audit there... the short answer is that if we go in and find that Cambridge Analytica still has access to the data, we're gonna take all legal steps that we can to make that the data of people in our community is protected.

He reiterated that he believed the company made big mistakes, first by allowing app developers far too much access to user data in previous builds of the site, and later by blindly trusting that Cambridge Analytica and other companies involved would actually delete it just because they sent them a sternly worded letter.

On Wednesday, Facebook said up to 87 million people may have had their data inappropriately accessed by the political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica said it deleted the data when it learned of the violation and denied on Saturday that it still had access to it.

Facebook said this week that up to 87 million users — more than the 50 million users estimated by Wylie when he spoke to the media outlets that reported on this issue in mid-March — may have had their information accessed by Cambridge Analytica, which obtained the data from Cambridge University researcher Kogan.

So, you know, right now we have the report from the Times and the Guardian and Channel 4 that said that they thought that Cambridge Analytica might have access to data still.

But the Cruz campaign also had problems with the data platform it paid Cambridge Analytica a hefty monthly fee to access.

The crisis arose from news that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, had improperly accessed data on tens of millions of Facebook users.

The stock tumbled about 7 % Monday on news that data firm Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to Trump's campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users.

AggregateIQ has been linked to the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that has been accused of improperly accessing data from 87 million Facebook users.

(Reuters)- British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may have improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users, according to a Channel 4 television report.

But the news that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, was able to gain access to private data through the social network has sparked an unusually strong reaction among its users.

It says it didn't have access to Facebook data from Cambridge Analytica.

Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who went public with revelations that Cambridge Analytica had gained unauthorized access to data belonging to 50 million Facebook users, tweeted that he had accepted requests to testify before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the UK Parliament Digital Committee.

What's really wild about all of this is that Facebook knew that Cambridge Analytica had gained access to a large quantity of its user data all the way back in 2015.