Sentences with phrase «access to the personal data of»

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.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Zuckerberg faced tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools in the wake of reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

The company is facing questions following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.

Facebook is facing questions of its data handling following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

The social media giant is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Access to the personal data of millions of Facebook users would be hugely valuable to the firm.

Facebook said Friday a British researcher and his firm, Global Science Research, legitimately gained access to the personal data of Facebook users in 2013 while working on a personality prediction app, but the researcher violated Facebook's rules by passing it on to Cambridge Analytica.

The federal investigation and threats followed recent news that the data collection firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Hackers have gained access to the personal data of up to 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers, the UK - based mobile retail giant has today admitted.

If your organization is part of a larger international corporate group with affiliates located in the EU, you should expect that the EU affiliates will not be prepared to allow the Canadian affiliate to have access to the personal data of EU subjects, even for internal corporate group purposes, unless the Canadian affiliate adheres to «binding corporate rules» which will require the Canadian affiliate to comply with the key elements of the GDPR.

It was learned late last Friday that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of roughly 50 million users without their permission.

While at the same time it offers Chinese technology companies something no other nation can: unlimited and legally enforced access to the personal data of billions of people.

Facebook Inc said on Friday that it had suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform after reports that the data firm may have improperly had access to the personal data of Facebook users.

Facebook Inc said on Friday that it had suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform after reports that the data firm may have improperly had access to the personal data of Facebook users.

While convenient and efficient, the «Search and Account Recovery» function likely also helped «malicious actors» gain access to the personal data of «most» of Facebook's two billion users, the company has admitted.

That's because Cambridge Analytica reportedly got access to the personal data of a large number of users, and the backlash suggests Facebook may face more regulation and could lose users, advertisers or advertising revenue.

Guest mode is something where you give a limited access to the apps when passing your phone to someone known, whom you don't want to give the access to every personal data of yours.

Throughout that period, «defendants made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose that Facebook violated its own data privacy policies by allowing third parties access to personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent,» according to the complaint.

On April 4, the company said that the personal data breach might have affected about 87 million Facebook users, while the Cambridge Analytica argued that under the contract it had access to the personal data of no more than 30 million people.

According to Facebook estimates, the Spanish users have downloaded the app 44 times, which might have provided access to the personal data of 136,985 Facebook users.

The federal investigation and threats followed recent news that the data collection firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

(Reuters)-- Facebook Inc said on Friday that it had suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ from its platform after reports that the data firm may have improperly had access to the personal data of Facebook users.

After The New York Times and the Guardian's Observer reported Saturday that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users, many other privacy issues with Facebook came out.

The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed that it is investigating Facebook's privacy practices after it was revealed that the company allowed Cambridge Analytica access to the personal data of some 50 million Facebook users without their expressed consent.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Facebook had assured users that third - party applications only had access to data required for them to function, while, in fact, the applications had access to almost all of a user's personal information.

In addition to eyeing a flurry of proprietary personal data, she claims she accessed tens of thousands of photos of kids and parents on VTech's servers, many of them headshots.

On the website, you log in, unwittingly providing criminals access to a trove of personal data, including your Social Security number, bank account information, address and salary.

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.

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.

Marketers will need to establish a trust among consumers and prove that if they give up access to some of their personal data, in return they will get more tailored offers, deals and interactions.

In September, Equifax reported a massive data breach, saying hackers may have accessed the personal details, including names and Social Security numbers, of more than 143 million consumers from mid-May to July.

European member states have given preliminary approval to the idea of a «one - stop - shop» mechanism for data protection cases in the EU, which would theoretically simplify citizens» access to regulatory help when they feel their personal data is being mishandled.

This would include password - protection and encryption for the location data of passengers and drivers, limiting employee access to the data, and adding more security tools to protect personal information.

These articles revealed how Cambridge Analytica obtained access to the personal details and lifestyle preferences of over 50 million users by using a team of academics to gather the data under the guise of scientific research [NY Times, The Guardian].

Significant privacy and access concerns will exist if the AML Proposal is ultimately deemed to include multisig wallets or other wallets that require collecting personal data from the customer for the purpose of having a database readily accessible to the government.

Again, their entire business model depends upon access to and distribution of private personal data.

There are many applications that do not need to access the users» friends personal data (e.g. games, quizzes, apps that only post things on the user's page) but Facebook Ireland does not offer a more limited level of access than «all the basic information of all friends».

«Facebook Ireland could not answer me which applications have accessed my personal data and which of my friends have allowed them to do so,» he writes.

Subject Access Requests give individuals the right to request not just the information they have voluntarily uploaded to a service, but also personal data the company holds about them; Including giving a description of the personal data; the reasons it is being processed; and whether it will be given to any other organizations or people.

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RDR defines «user information» as any information that identifies a user's activities, including (but not limited to) personal correspondence, user - generated content, account preferences and settings, log and access data, data about a user's activities or preferences collected from third parties, and all forms of metadata.

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A Bitcoin user has gone to court to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from accessing personal data of millions of users on Coinbase, a San Francisco - based digital asset exchange company.

Individuals get the right to access all their personal data, control access and use of it, and even have it deleted.

Rick Arney, co-author of the proposed California Consumer Privacy Act, said support for the measure widened when federal officials opened an investigation into how a data firm, Cambridge Analytica, accessed the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge to help elect President Trump.