The use or
abuse of that data by Cambridge Analytica in work that it had done with Donald Trump's campaign for President in 2016 and potentially for other businesses in the run up to the election is at the heart of Donal
Not exact matches
In the six - count suit the airline alleges the pair broke Southwest website's terms and conditions
by taking fare
data off the site, broke trademark laws, and violated the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act
by accessing Southwest's «computers without authorization or in excess
of authorized access.»
This week was full
of startling, scary news about how carelessly Facebook treated user
data, and how Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy previously led in part
by Steve Bannon,
abused access to that
data, possibly for Trump's presidential campaign.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned
by US lawmakers today about the «use and
abuse of data» — following weeks
of breaking news about a
data misuse scandal dating back to 2014.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned
by US lawmakers today about the «use and
abuse of data» — following weeks
of breaking news about a
data misuse scandal dating back
First announced amid a slew
of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around
abuse of user
data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new bounty program is modeled off
of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million bug bounty.
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge Analytica - linked expert at the center
of the recent Facebook scandal, told the U.K. government on Tuesday that despite links to a St. Petersburg university, his
data was not
abused by the Kremlin.
When I asked about the controversies that Facebook is currently embroiled in (Russia meddling, out -
of - control ad platform,
data abuse by third - party developers, tech addiction), Cook called out advertising - based business as problematic.
Facebook's
data practices are now being investigated
by the FTC, and as a result Facebook has announced that they are doing a full
data audit on thousands
of Facebook Apps to see if there are any other instances
of companies like Cambridge Analytica
abusing the system.
Facebook says any bad actors identified
by the
data abuse program may face removal
of their app from the platform, a forensic audit
of related systems and legal action against the app's company and any relevant parties.
Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence about the
abuse of data on the platform
by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure
of the massive
data breach.
For the first time ever
data relating to reported cases
of Child
Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief has been released
by the Government.
He said that
data gathered from top insurers
of Protestant churches a few years ago showed that there were 260 reports a year
of child sex
abuse by church leaders or members
of the congregation.
As many as 120,000 senior residents — 12 percent
of the city's elderly population — suffer
abuse annually, according to 2011
data from the New York State Office
of Children and Family Services cited
by Crain's.
Referencing the report, «Homelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written
by Social Sciences Associates in support
of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded
by The Oneida County Department
of Mental Health, Picente said that
data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem
of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance
abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number
of family breakups caused
by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.»
An analysis
by New Scientist finds scant evidence
of data abuse, but does show persistent efforts to suppress work
by climate sceptics.
«Our
data show that shaking a young child is generally accepted
by physicians to be a dangerous form
of abuse,» says Narang.
The
data were obtained from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System of the Children's Bureau and child maltreatment reports issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi
data were obtained from the National Child
Abuse and Neglect
Data System of the Children's Bureau and child maltreatment reports issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi
Data System
of the Children's Bureau and child maltreatment reports issued
by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
More than a decade
of data indicates teens have become far less likely to
abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results
of a national survey analyzed
by researchers at Washington University School
of Medicine in St. Louis.
The
data come from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey
of 12 - to 17 - year - olds from all 50 states that is sponsored
by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Administration, an agency
of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
Given the medical and socio - economic difficulties often faced
by people with mental illness, and the lack
of research into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available
data, what proportion
of US adults experience each combination
of mental illness, substance
abuse / dependence and chronic mental conditions.
The collection
of that
data was overseen
by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
In a Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue
of the Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School
of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that prescription opioid
abuse can be minimized
by monitoring patients closely for harm
by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing prescription drug monitoring program
data when available.
Bullinger and co-researcher Kerri Raissian
of the University
of Connecticut reached their conclusions
by analyzing nine years
of child maltreatment reports from the National Child
Abuse and Neglect
Data System.
Because the precise age
of each respondent was not known,
data on the averages
of substance use
by month
of age was obtained from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services» Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
According to
data collected
by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, the estimated number
of victims
of abuse or neglect per 1,000 children in the national population dropped from 13 to 12 between 2001 and 2004.
Since no concrete, national
data exist on allegations
of child sex
abuse by school employees, the project was also based on searches through archives, wire service clippings, and computer databases
of thousands
of news...
A new report out
of New York City suggests that policy makers should identify troubled schools
by their absenteeism rates — a relatively easy
data point to obtain — and then work to fix the schools
by addressing each one's unique problems, from homelessness and child
abuse to teacher turnover and safety.
Without the law there would be no requirement that schools districts have contractual standards that limits the use or potential
abuse of student
data by vendors.
Here is the abstract from a paper in the Harvard Law & Policy Review
by Alexei Alexandrov and Dalie Jimenez that looks at the
data of how the 2005 Bankruptcy
Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act actually impacted consumers.
Most
of the legislative activity in 2018 is a quiet effort to persuade legislators to treat veterinary medicine differently than human medicine for a host
of reasons, anchored
by a view that this is fundamentally a crisis in human health care and that a paucity
of data links opioid
abuse to pet health care.
Moving to large numbers
of players who expect to be able to interact with each other en masse, chat, trade, work together, work against each other, connect any time
of the day or night, never lose any saved
data, never have their accounts hacked, never lose out to a cheater or a scammer, and never be
abused in chat
by a troll... well, it's games development in «Extreme difficulty» mode.
The world can not trust scientists who
abuse their power
By Gordon Crovitz For anyone who doubts the power
of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news
of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group
of scientists who suppressed
data, froze others out
of the debate, and flouted freedom -
of - information laws.
That Manne manipulated his «hockey stick
data» to produce a kink to «prove» AWG covering the industrial revolution to the present, is all the more amusing, not only for the juk science entailed in that
abuse of maths but also in the breath - taking silliness involved in altogther eliminating the record which, before matters
of science as laid out
by Eshchenbach, simply makes nonsense
of such claims.
At the end
of the day, once the principle
of massive surveillance schemes based on
data mining mechanisms is considered to be acceptable as such, the standard
of the «reasonable suspicion» is overrun and has to be replaced
by principles and other guarantees preventing any
abuse, provided that this is possible.
«It's an
abuse of dominance allegation... being that TREB has a dominant position in [Multiple Listing Service] based real estate, and that it
abused that dominant position
by restrictions that it put on access to MLS
data,» says Donald Houston, partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto.
From a competition point
of view, big
data held
by companies can trigger both Articles 101 (relating to antitrust cases) and 102 (
abuse of dominance cases)
of Treaty on the Functioning
of the European Union (TFEU).
In 2008, Illinois passed the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), designed to protect employees and consumers against perceived
abuses associated with the collection
of bio metric
data by businesses and providing a statutory cause
of action for its violation.
As long as the national
data retention obligations do not concern the content
of the electronic communications and as long as they provide for safeguards that «effectively protect personal
data» retained
by service providers «against the risk
of abuse and against any unlawful access and use
of that
data» (§ 159), this requirement does not seem to create particular problems in the cases submitted to the CJEU.
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Data published
by the Strategic Legal Fund in May 2017, based on a report
by Jean Demars: Rough sleeping as «
abuse / misuse»
of the right to freedom
of movement, relied on
by the High Court at § 107.
Advising the British Horseracing Authority in its successful appeal against a decision
by the High Court that it
abused its dominant position in the supply
of UK pre-race
data to bookmakers.
Commenters said that state agencies used the information from government health
data systems to contribute to the improvement
of the health care system
by helping prevent fraud and
abuse and helping improve health care quality, efficiency, and cost - effectiveness.
A common form
of abuse occurs through stolen credentials and passwords that could lead to «drive -
by downloads» and the theft
of data.
Zuckerberg laid out a slate
of changes Facebook will make to prevent past and future
abuses of user
data by app developers.
The hearing, convened
by Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) and Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R - S.D.), is titled «Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and
Abuse of Data.»
Among the measures he said Facebook will take, the company will investigate and look for any potential
abuses of personal
data by app developers on its platform that have had access to large amounts
of user
data.
He said Facebook will investigate any other potential
abuses by app developers who have had access to large amounts
of people's
data.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Stamos recently deleted a series
of tweets arguing that Cambridge Analytica did not «breach» Facebook's systems, but rather simply
abused data its affiliates were given access to
by design.
On Friday, it was revealed that Trump - linked
data company Cambridge Analytica, a United States - based subsidiary
of UK - based firm SCL, had obtained as many as 50 million Facebook profiles
by abusing Facebook's
data sharing features.
A letter written
by Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republican John Kennedy said: «A hearing with the CEOs would allow the committee to learn what is being done to protect Americans»
data and limit
abuse of the platforms, as well as to assess what measures should be taken before the next elections.»