While Tinder and, until recently, Bumble, depend on Facebook data to help
build user profiles, Facebook's in - app Dating feature will likely be aimed more at Match.com.
This user data was supposedly used to
build user profiles and target Facebook users in the Trump and Leave Brexit campaigns.
Services like
these build user profiles that not only track what each individual likes, but evolve to stay up to date with a user's changing taste.
«We don't
build any user profiles,» Federighi said about the information that online companies typically collect about user activity, including the sites they visit and what they search for.
This knowledge is used to
build a user profile that is then sold to advertisers or translated into lending.
Not exact matches
The Guardian alleged that Cruz's campaign contracted - out the creation of «detailed psychological
profiles about the U.S. electorate, using a massive pool of mainly unwitting U.S. Facebook
users,
built with an online survey.»
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users build a
profile, adding their location, gender, age, income and browser search history.
By linking their social - media accounts, we are able to generate a 52 - point personality
profile for every
user, allowing us to
build schedules and recommend courses that both satisfy degree requirements and genuinely interest students.»
(Whether the 50 million affected Facebook
users will be notified that their data was used to
build «psychographic
profiles» for the purposes of shaping their political beliefs remains to be seen.)
When Intuit used Splice in its telemarketing in India, the audio techniques that allowed the company to
build more personalized telemarketing messages — using first names, varying tone of voice and employing
user profiles — didn't quite take as it had in the U.S. and the U.K.
Users can
build a dating
profile that friends won't be able to see.
A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological
profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook
users built with an online survey.
The software - as - a-service focused (SaaS) startup has
built device - agnostic tools provide services such as notification engine, A / B testing, custom integrations and automatic
user profiles creator to product managers and marketers, to improve UI on websites and apps.
By that point, of course, CA had already gotten the bulk of its
user data from Facebook
users — most notably from their
profile pages, where
user interests and likes provided the company with the
building blocks of personality
profiles it created to help determine whether
users would be susceptible to different kinds of political messaging.
In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was
built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook
users so CA could, in turn,
build psychological
profiles on millions of American voters.
The newspaper reported that the Ted Cruz campaign had paid UK academics to gather psychological
profiles about the US electorate using «a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook
users built with an online survey».
The Times added that «roughly 30 million contained enough information, including places of residence, that the company could match
users to other records and
build psychographic
profiles.»
Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter -
profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without
user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers
built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.
Zuckerberg's remarks were his first since bombshell reports from The New York Times and The Guardian / The Observer alleged British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained and retained the personal information of 50 million Facebook
users without their permission — 30 million of them with enough details to match
users to other records and
build profiles of them.
Zuckerberg admitted multiple times throughout the 20 - minute interview that Facebook had made major mistakes in the
building of its social platform — going as far back as 2007 — that ultimately led to Cambridge Analytica's ability to misuse the personal
profile information of some 50 million
users.
On top of the exchange, the company is
building dapps for the publisher portal, the advertiser portal and the AdEx
profile for end
users.
The New York Times and U.K.'s Observer has reported that Cambridge Analytica had kept personal information of 50 million Facebook
users without their permission, 30 million of them with enough details to match
users to other records and
build profiles of them.
According to The New York Times report, 30 million of the 50 million
profiles collected had enough information to match
users to other records and
build profiles of them.
In a blog post that went up late Friday night, Facebook explained that a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which asked
users to answer questions to
build a psychological
profile.
Wylie alleged the data was first collected by Aleksandr Kogan through an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which asked
users to answer questions to
build a psychological
profile.
It was a Palantir employee in London, working closely with the data scientists
building Cambridge's psychological
profiling technology, who suggested the scientists create their own app — a mobile - phone - based personality quiz — to gain access to Facebook
users» friend networks, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
The contacts took place as Cambridge Analytica was
building a roster of Republican clients in the United States — and harvesting the Facebook
profiles of over 50 million
users to develop tools to analyze voters» behavior.
But Wylie has been outspoken about how Cambridge Analytica — a company he helped
build, according to a
profile in the Guardian — planned to use the Facebook
users» data and an algorithm to
build «psychographic»
profiles that could be used to predict the political leanings of every potential American voter.
Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have harvested the private data of 50 million U.S. Facebook
users without their consent in an effort to
build psychographic
profiles meant to influence voters» decisions.
If
users were paid to upload their fitness data to a database, along with demographic information in their
profiles, public health researchers would be able to custom -
build health research surveys to answer all sorts of questions.
Tracking companies
build a
profile of each
user based on such activities.
PR WEB — Jan 20 — Honestyfirst.com has
built a system that empowers its
users to keep each other honest in their
profiles.
First and foremost it is vital that we confirm that eHarmony has never encouraged any of its employees or contractors to
build a false
profile in order to communicate with members of our service or mislead our
users, and has not hired anyone to do so.
New
users can
build a detailed
profile page by mentioning their education, occupation, background, lifestyle habits, interests and type of partner they are seeking through the website.
After answering a series of questions about themselves, Setipe
builds users a personality
profile, then matches them with compatible singles using a matchmaking engine that was created with the help of clinical psychologists.
These include Tinder - style Jobr and Emjoyment, where
users sign up via LinkedIn,
build a CV
profile and then swipe through prospective jobs and employers.
ZDNET — Feb 16 — Jambo Networks
users start by registering and
building a
profile via the company's Web site.
Users take a simple personality test and a personal profile — known as Matching Sauce — is built and users are matched on compatibi
Users take a simple personality test and a personal
profile — known as Matching Sauce — is
built and
users are matched on compatibi
users are matched on compatibility.
Take BeLinked, which verifies
users through LinkedIn, or The Inner Circle, which
builds in accountability via Facebook connections displayed on
profiles, and holds events where
users can meet a date in a safe, public venue.
This means with simply an email address you can acquire a pof login that allows instant ability to message all
users on the site and
build a
profile page in mere minutes.
To help daters connect and flirt more easily, Zoosk Labs
built an innovative product that allows
users to augment their
profiles with videos that show who they are and what they enjoy.
Koutsomitis, an entrepreneur born and raised in New York City, is currently prepping her mobile dating app, which uses elements of gaming to help
users build their
profiles, learn about themselves, and connect with other likeminded singles.
Currently, eHarmony asks about 150 questions in order to
build a
profile of a
user, which offers the site unprecedented access to the
user's personality, values, attributes, and beliefs.
After setting up
profile,
users can upload a photo and answer more questions to
build their
profile.
Without having to pay a cent, the site allows
users to make a comprehensive
profile, share pictures and videos, access chat rooms, make use of the
built — in instant messaging client and find a compatible partner using the auto — matchmaking algorithm available on the site.
With a
user friendly interface, this app allows you to
build your
profile and step into the world of Asian dating.
Once you're done with the process of
profile building and have got an approval from the admin, you'd be able to browse through the website and check out
profiles of other
users.
· The website is free to register with and
users can
build a detailed
profile, complete with as many pictures as they would like to add.
Well, it definitely started with that online dating
profile I made a while back on a site
built around proposed date ideas from its
users see here: My Online Dating
Profile (ish).
One way to accomplish this is to
build a recommendation system that predicts the
profiles a
user is.