Sentences with phrase «kogan having access to the data»

At the time, laxer privacy settings across Facebook meant Kogan had access to data from tens of millions more users after their friends had installed the app.

It also gathered data from their Facebook friends, which reportedly resulted in Kogan having access to the data of millions of Facebook profiles.

Not exact matches

These actions would prevent any app like Kogan's from being able to access as much Facebook data today.

Global Science Research, the firm created by Kogan, had one day of access to «a random sample of public tweets from a five - month period from December 2014 to April 2015,» but not any private data, Twitter said.

The researcher at the center of the Facebook personal data scandal, Aleksandr Kogan, also briefly had access to public data from Twitter.

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.

These actions would prevent any app like Kogan's from being able to access so much data today.

Yesterday Channel 4 News reported that it had been able to obtain some of the data Kogan modeled for CA — thereby supporting Wylie's testimony that CA had not locked down access to the data.

Kogan's app would not be permitted access to detailed friends» data today.»

In 2014, Facebook changed the rules that would prevent developers form accessing data the way Kogan did, and now Zuckerberg said the company will be approaching developers from before that time to snuff out any other data leaks.

Kogan's app would not be permitted access to detailed friends» data today,» Facebook said.

Kogan's app would not be permitted access to detailed friends» data today.»

Tayler served as the company's chief data officer in 2015 when Facebook first raised concerns that Cambridge had gained access to the user data via British academic Aleksandr Kogan, in violation of the social network's terms of service.

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.

These actions would prevent any app like Aleksandr Kogan's from being able to access so much data today.

«These actions would prevent any app like Kogan's from being able to access so much data today,» he wrote.

The same day, Facebook said it had hired forensic auditors to examine whether Cambridge Analytica had held on to data allegedly passed to it by an academic at Cambridge University, Aleksandr Kogan, who gained access to Facebook's platform for research purposes several years ago.

It denies there was a data breach, and says it had granted Kogan permission to access the information.

Facebook says that the information obtained by Kogan was accessed «in a legitimate way and through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time,» and that it has «made significant improvements in our ability to detect and prevent violations by app developers,» in the last five years, requiring developers to justify the use of the data that they collect.

Thirdly, FB failed to have adequate provisions in the contract between FB and Kogan (or failed to enforce those provisions) which would have prevented Kogan from using the data FB allowed him to access for any other purpose other than the one agreed between FB and Kogan, namely academic purposes.

When reached for comment Monday, a Facebook spokeswoman sent along the following statement from Facebook VP of Global Operations Justin Osoksky: «It's important to note that Kogan's app would not have access to detailed friends» data today.»

So the actions here that we're going to do involve first, dramatically reducing the amount of data that developers have access to, so that apps and developers can't do what Kogan did here.

As part of that push, apps which users haven't launched in three months will have their data access rights revoked, whereas no app will be able to harvest anything outside of one's name, profile photo, and email address via a traditional Facebook Connect login such as the one used by Mr. Kogan's quiz and numerous other apps like Uber, Disqus, and a wide variety of browser and mobile games.

Yesterday Channel 4 News reported that it had been able to obtain some of the data Kogan modeled for CA — thereby supporting Wylie's testimony that CA had not locked down access to the data.

While Zuckerberg claimed that since then Facebook has overtime changed the way it platform functions to «dramatically limit the data apps could access», it could not stop the breach of trust by Kogan, who had shared the data collected through his apps with Cambridge Analytica.

The app was used by over 300,000 users on Facebook, but Kogan also managed to access the profile data of other Facebook users, who were friends of those who had used the app.

In my view, these requirements were not met when Kogan deceived 270,000 users into thinking that their information would be used solely for research, and then managed to gain access to 50 million of their friends, who had no clue (and probably still don't) that their data was harvested as well.

Facebook has suggested that, at the time Kogan gained access to the data of 270,000 users, Facebook's settings allowed third parties to harvest everything from users and their friends, and thus there was no violation of the decree.

The heart of the matter is how an app created by Dr Aleksandr Kogan was able to access so much data that could be used by groups for nefarious purposes, despite apparent guardrails Facebook had put in place to prevent such abuse.

About 270,000 people downloaded the app and gave Kogan access to their data, like city and content they had liked.

When the app was downloaded, Kogan had access not only to users» basic information such as city of residence and details about friends, but also data from the profiles of their Facebook friends.

Facebook says it dramatically limits the access apps have to friend data, preventing the type of data scoop Kogan and others were capable of.