Sentences with phrase «by giving them data»

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The hearing will give lawmakers the chance to ask the Facebook CEO directly about the company's involvement in the improper harvesting of data from an estimated 87 million users by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

By inputting various data (from vitamin intake to temperature levels), Glow gives women «an estimate of their fertility window via a calendar and an indication of the «percent chance» of getting pregnant.»

We found this especially curious given that our fill rate on ARCA, an exchange owned by NYSE located in the same data center, was 96.8 %.

The focus should instead be to give people control over who accesses their data, by using blockchain technology.

Otherwise, all these data points help by giving me a more robust picture of each candidate.

As an avowed supporter of open data — or the government freeing the information it gathers to the public — I really wondered how Kundra felt about the issue, especially given that he's now on an advisory panel set up by Tony Clement.

A number of Canadian startups are focused on servicing the needs of business exclusively: Vancouver - based software developer Bit Stew Systems Inc. partnered with B.C. Hydro to build a program that constantly monitors data emitted by the two million home smart meters in the province; and New Brunswick - based RtTech Systems» platform monitors and gives «asset utilization and utilities consumption.»

So, IBM's strategy is to use Watson, armed with its super-computing abilities and artificial intelligence, to help give doctors and scientists in the research process an informed «second opinion» by scouring the available data, as Rhee puts it.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

There are plenty of radio apps out there, but iCar Radio goes further by giving you bandwidth options to help save on data costs.

Congress could create the consistent framework many Republicans want by creating a set of rules for how ISPs and internet companies treat customer data, but given the GOP's repeated desire to return privacy regulation to the FTC, though, that seems unlikely.

New data released by the Department of Homeland Security last week gives us a better picture of the companies sponsoring workers under these visas.

Machine learning refers to a process where computers are given access to mountains of data, along with a set of analysis criteria (created by an actual human being).

For businesses looking to sell their data, this process involves using seed records that give them the ability to monitor how their lists are being used, and to identify if the terms and agreements are being violated by the third party.

Given the resources needed to run the massive data centers required by public cloud providers, most observers say the three key players are Amazon, Microsoft (msft) and Google (goog).

The bureau isn't moved by any of these arguments, saying that if brokers already give out the data in print, it's in the public domain.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation strips its background checks data of applications for conceal - carry permits, typically made by people who already own guns, to give a better reflection of actual purchases.

Another contributing factor was a gigantic leap in the amount of data that average users were accessing on a given day, supported by the rapid rise of the Internet - connected mobile device.

Some of the businesses atop Fortune's list of The Giving 20: The Most Generous Companies of the Fortune 500, which was based on data collected by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, were also those viewed least favorably by the public.

The new ePrivacy law will force Facebook to ask all its European users to give permission for each separate type of data being stored or shared by Facebook.

And by using information that customers give out freely, whether it's by checking in to a certain coffeeshop on Foursquare's Swarm app or connecting to free wi - fi in a store, traditional retailers can create a data - driven model that will help increase in - store attribution.

Lightspeed grew its customer base by staying on top of retail trends, constantly adding new features like mobile checkout functionality, and adapting its business model to the cloud, giving clients access to data and analytics while keeping overhead low.

The aim is to give consumers control of their personal data as it is collected by companies.

The company will aim to give more control to employees by improving access to their own healthcare data and increasing telemedicine, Dimon wrote.

The rules, which were upheld by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals earlier in June, ensure that internet service providers treat data equally and can not give or sell access to so - called internet fast lanes that would prioritize certain internet services over others.

The campaign was able to do this not just by giving volunteers online scripts and a list of phone numbers, but also by giving people feedback through real - time and historical data, showing them the number of calls they made that day, week, month or even during the course of the entire year.

By repackaging the data in an easy - to - read dashboard and by layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles aparBy repackaging the data in an easy - to - read dashboard and by layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles aparby layering in a social element, Nike allows its customers to connect, challenging each other through friendly competitions to run a certain number of miles «together» in a given week even though they may live 3,000 miles apart.

They contend that its open policies prove the benefits of experimenting with data and using information to establish a «direct relationship between an individual's decisions and their impact on the business» — something the grocery chain accomplishes by giving each employee high - level access to the company's financial data, and therefore a greater stake in the business.

Volume for the category climbed 2.2 % in 2014 from the prior year, according to data by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, as American drinkers gave the spirits industry a market share victory over brewers for the fifth straight year.

The disclosure that the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users was improperly harvested by the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has given privacy experts hope that the public will finally listen to them.

The Department examined the dataset obtained from SBA which contains data on the number of firms by NAICS codes, including the number of firms in given revenue categories.

That data, downloaded over years of Facebook users freely giving apps such as games and personality quizzes access to their information, is largely still stored outside of Facebook's grasp by the private individuals and companies who built those applications.

The banks hope that the technology can help predict which employees will succeed at a given job by creating patterns around large amounts of data that the tests produce.

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A new study by my company, Millennial Branding, and the on - demand compensation data and software firm PayScale gives a good indication of how underemployed Gen Y truly is.

Additionally, the SEC requires oil and gas companies, in filings made with the SEC, to disclose proved reserves, which are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible — from a given date forward, from known reservoirs, under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and governmental regulations.

Kogan seemed most comfortable during the session when he was laying into Facebook's platform policies — perhaps unsurprisingly, given how the company has sought to paint him as a rogue actor who abused its systems by creating an app that harvested data on up to 87 million Facebook users and then handing information on its users off to third parties.

«We were given assurances by them years ago that they deleted the data,» she said of Cambridge Analytica on «PBS NewsHour.»

The historical app audit was announced in the wake of last month's revelations about how much Facebook data Cambridge Analytica was given by app developer (and Cambridge University academic), Dr Aleksandr Kogan — in what the company couched as a «breach of trust».

It most likely wasn't hard: Stillwell had accidentally stumbled across a treasure trove of Facebook users who seemed willing, by the millions, to give up their data to his third - party app, along with all the data of people in their Facebook friend networks.

We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

In this post, we'll give you a step by step instruction on how to find the data that will help you track your SEO using Google Analytics.

So if you look in any given city you may see a different delivery fee but that is defined by the conversion rates in the data.

Given the «vast volumes of data» pulled in by the NSA, storage has become a pressing question.

The techniques listed here are by no means an exhaustive list, but they should help demonstrate the types of tools at your disposal and the various capabilities they give for data - driven social media marketers who are willing to leverage them.

A Facebook data - related project that the center is involved with, called the myPersonality Project — which started as a student side project of the now deputy director of the Psychometrics Centre, David Stillwell — was essentially the accidental inspiration for Kogan's thisismydigitallife quiz app, according to testimony given to the UK parliament by former Cambridge Analytica employee Chris Wylie last month.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

«The data subject is not given an unambiguous consent to the processing of personal data by applications (no opt - in).

«In my pitches I used to give examples even to clients that if you go on Facebook and you see these viral personality quizzes — not all of them would have been designed by Cambridge Analytica / SCL Group or our affiliates but that these applications were designed specifically to harvest data from individuals, using Facebook as the tool.»

Now, given information that's come to light about the Trump campaign working with Cambridge Analytica to optimize its campaigns, and about how Cambridge Analytica obtained that data improperly from a Facebook app built by researcher Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, Mueller's investigation may have been interested to know if the Facebook staffer was aware of the improperly obtained data.