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The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

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

Facebook says a researcher, Cambridge University's Aleksandr Kogan, gained access to the data of 270,000 Facebook users in 2013 through a personality quiz app that required Facebook users to grant access to their personal information including friends and «likes.»

The probes follow a weekend of turmoil for Facebook after reports that Cambridge Analytica gained access to the data of more than 50 million users.

In the case of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook says a researcher from Cambridge University, Aleksandr Kogan, used a personality quiz app in 2014 to gain access to the data of 270,000 Facebook users, including their friends and «likes.»

It will not have access to any data of its participants apart from the actual survey responses.

The probes follow a weekend of turmoil for Facebook after reports that Cambridge Analytica gained access to the data of more than 50 million users.

The social media giant on Monday said that is auditing each and every app that has access to the data of its users and has already suspended 200 apps which failed to comply with its policies

Though they don't seem to have a major tech component to their platform, the fast - growing fashion site will obviously benefit from having access to the data of an online community that kept fashion trends at the core of its product.

«Quite clearly the main thrust of this is there has been an issue with... the possibility of indiscriminate access to data of all sorts,» she says, adding: «The [ECJ] are not distinguishing, interestingly enough, between data and content either.

For the record, 2004 is the same year Zuckerberg bragged to a friend via DM that he had access to the data of all the «dumb fucks» who had signed up for the initial version of the site, so perhaps he was not quite the naive fawn he would like us to think.

Thanks to Facebook Platform, the personality quiz is able to gain access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

These rules had reduced data access for third - party apps on Facebook, and ensured that an app could not get access to the data of a user's friends, unless the friends also gave consent to the app.

The intention seems to be to assess whether other apps, too, have misused their access to data of Facebook users.

Two weeks ago it was revealed that the company allowed a Cambridge University researcher, Aleksandr Kogan, access to the data of 50 million Facebook users who then provided it to Cambridge Analytica, which was used by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to help him win the White House.

Zuckerberg says the data company was able to do so with the help of Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher who created a personality quiz app in 2013 to furtively gain access to the data of tens of millions of users and their friends.

Though the specific Facebook feature that gave Cambridge Analytica access to the data of millions of users without their permission is no longer available, what you willingly share can still be used to build up a detailed picture about you for targeting adverts.

Did that give the Russians access to the data of those individuals that followed or friended those fake individuals / groups?»

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.

To start, the company now believes Cambridge Analytica was given improper access to the data of as many as 87 million people, mostly U.S. citizens.

His apology comes in the wake of allegations that British firm Cambridge Analytica illegally gained access to data of 50 million Facebook users to manipulate the outcome of the US Presidential Elections in 2016.

Zuckerberg said that because of the way the Facebook platform worked at the time, this gave Kogan access to data of «tens of millions» of friends of users who took the quiz.

Moreover, note that users could give away everything about their friends as well; this is exactly how the researcher implicated in the Cambridge Analytica story leveraged 270,000 survey respondents to gain access to the data of 50 million Facebook users.

Not exact matches

The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transportation, infrastructure, and education, updating its analysis as the e-commerce giant continues to tease new information about the massive project called HQ2.

This way, no single person in your organization has to spend much time, and soon, you'll have access to a wealth of new data.

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AT&T already has access to a lot of user data.

Today, Sweden is among the most - connected countries in the Eurozone, with more than nine out of 10 households having internet access as of 2015, according to European Commission data.

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Scanadu will also have anonymized access to all of its users» health data, which can be used for epidemiology — the study of the patterns of health and disease in defined geographic areas.

The spokeswoman added: «Wonga is urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access to the personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland.

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.

It's an increasingly common form of extortion: hackers gain access to your data, encrypt it, and demand ransom for the key.

The platforms, on the other hand, argue the risk of personal data leakage is too great if they let third - parties have access to everything.

In 2011, efforts by American Airlines Group Inc. to elude the distribution firms by providing its own schedule and fare data directly to larger online travel agencies triggered a series of lawsuits over access to such data.

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It can be difficult to answer all of the deep questions about your customer if you don't have access to a lot of marketing data, and many small business owners don't.

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«From a physician standpoint, you can not do your job unless you have access to as much of the data as is available....

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, said it's helpful to think about the issue of data and its access in terms of three buckets: ownership, access, and usage.

Not only is this a great way of backing up data, but it also allows users to access the files remotely from any location in the world.

The most cunning of hackers, once they have the proverbial foot in the door, can find creative ways to gain even greater access to company data.

Managers and owners should know what critical data needs to be protected, where the data resides within the company, and restrict access to only those employees who have need of the data and have also received training in data and information security.

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

Because buyers have a greater access to data and information, they feel less of a need to ask the company for information.

I do think that it's going to change the amount of data that we have access to as marketers.

Watch Out for Evil Twins Be aware of the methods a company or vendor uses to communicate with you, because hackers sometimes gain access to computers, data and accounts by posing as legitimate companies or agencies.

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We want to protect consumers against breaches of privacy [but] we want access to data to enable us to do things in a more targeted, more refined, more acceptable way.