Sentences with phrase «access to app developers»

The Facebook F8 event is scheduled to start on May 1, which is when the firm is also expected to explain its new practices meant to restrict data access to app developers that co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this month.

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Many developers made their apps free or adopted a «freemium» model, making it a free download but adding in - app purchases for access to additional features or game levels.

For Facebook users who haven't used an app in three months or more, Zuckerberg says the app developers will no longer have access to their data.

It allowed hackers to access an unsuspecting user's smart home devices and make changes to them due to a bug in HomeKit, the software used by developers to let home gadgets like lightbulbs, door locks, and thermostats be controlled through Apple's Home app.

Albright pointed to research from the Belgian university KU Leuven explaining what data was included in those extended profile properties — that is, exactly which data developers could access from your Facebook friends once you gave the app permission.

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.

And Microsoft is launching a program to give app developers early access to the new software.

Accordingly, developers are working to make their apps as compatible as possible with the largest number of possible access points.

Zuckerberg also announced the social media giant would no longer allow app developers to access its users» data after three months of inactivity and it would reduce the amount of information people are required to hand over to third parties.

The App Store has already paid out some $ 3 billion to developers, allowing indepedent entrepreneurs nearly instant access to tens of millions of customers.

If a new developer wants to gain access to these APIs, they must first submit a request for a formal app review.

Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app.

For years, granting Facebook app developers access to your info also gave them access to your friends, who never intentionally gave anyone permission.

As for Cambridge Analytica, only now is Facebook launching an investigation into apps created at a time when the company was promising «easy access» for app developers, including Aleksandr Kogan, whose This Is Your Digital Life quiz app created the data set that was then sold to Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook has denied violating the consent decree when it allowed an app developer working for Cambridge Analytica to gain access to information about an estimated tens of millions of people.

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

Facebook is also cutting off developers» access to user accounts if someone has not used their apps for three months or longer.

Collective use of the platform by schools and other educational groups means that, just as with third - party app developers, some organizations still require you to have a Facebook account in order to access information and services.

It will also further restrict developers» access to data and create a new, more visible tool for people to see which apps are accessing their data and how.

For example, we will remove developers» access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months.

And after a data protection audit and re-audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, in 2011 and 2012, the regulator recommended it shutter developers» access to friend networks — which Facebook finally did (for both old and new apps) as of mid 2015.

The privacy watchdog also recommends Facebook tightens app permissions on its platform, including to close down developers» access to friends data

He said the social network planned to conduct an investigation of thousands of apps that have used Facebook's platform, restrict developer access to data, and give members a tool that lets them to disable access to their Facebook data more easily.

Since the data misuse scandal blew up last month, Facebook has said it is conducting a full audit of any apps which had access to «a large amount» of information before it changed app permissions on its platform in mid 2015 to prevent developers from being able to suck out data on Facebook users» friends.

As we understand it now, the data mining and analytics company, based out of London, gained access to data on as many as 50 million Facebook profiles thanks to generous data - sharing policies Facebook app developers enjoyed back in 2014.

Hundreds of app developers requested, and in some cases required, access to information in Facebook users» profiles, tapping into mountains of information about Facebook users and their friends, including hometowns, education, careers, birthdays, photos, relationship statuses and religious and political leanings.

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The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

Practically any engineer who could persuade a Facebook user to download an app or to sign into a website using Facebook's popular «log - in through Facebook» feature would have been able to access not only the profile, behavior and location of that Facebook user but also that of all the user's Facebook friends, developers said.

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.

Facebook apps, like FarmVille, extend the platform's usability, but in installing them, users often give third - party developers like Kogan access to a significant amount of their own data.

To its credit, it's changed app permissions so that developers can no longer access such a wide network of profiles.

Worse, in 2014, when Kogan's app was gathering data, Facebook's terms of service allowed developers to request access to an app installer's friends as well.

Therefore, mobile app developers can access the targeted ad content delivered to its own app users and then reverse engineer that data to construct a profile of their app customer.

NHTSA will also give developers real - time access to the data that powers this app through an Application Programming Interface (API), enabling them to integrate these data into new and existing apps and empowering consumers with important safety information.

The APIs will provide developers with better, more flexible access to the data for analysis and integration into creative, consumer - friendly web and mobile apps.

The Android - backed infotainment system will give drivers access to hundreds of apps developed by Google, Volvo, or third - party developers.

New Focus drivers will also have access to powerful new capabilities thanks to a host of new functions developers can integrate as they modify their apps to communicate with enhanced SYNC ® AppLink ™.

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Developers are going to have access to a new SDK that will allow them to augment their existing apps to optimize them for Chromebooks.

Libraries hiring «geeks» (programmers, developers, etc) to create software / programs / apps / whatever to store these ebooks and allow patrons to access them.

The latest move on Amazon's part also rules out the role of middle men as developers will now have direct access to Amazon's In - App Purchasing API for JavaScript.

Until now, very few developers have been able to build, deploy, and broadly scale apps with AI capabilities because doing so required access to vast amounts of data, and specialized expertise in machine learning and neural networks.

Google announced their effort to help us achieve these goals in the form of Google Fit: an open platform that includes a single set of APIs serving to give developers access to a method of combining the results from any other apps and companion tracking devices.

One other possibility is that if the app / game was recently updated the developer may have changed it to constantly require Internet access.

It's not perfect, but does give you access to a lot of apps that Amazon either won't allow or that developers haven't added to the Appstore.

This move will give BlackBerry access to a number of popular apps, especially those that app developers did not port to BB10.

Cooper said BlackBerry Enterprise Application Middleware will include a set of APIs, libraries and server software that will make it easier for developers to build «super apps» that can access instant data push and alerts, use efficient file transfers with enterprise applications, and make it easy to query a user's device for geo - location, presence, current camera image, calendar availability, device type and much more.

«By introducing this BlackBerry application middleware offering, we want to make it easy for enterprise middleware developers to build apps to a server back end and have users get access on the device,» said Paxton Cooper, senior director of platform product management at RIM, in an interview with eWEEK.