Sentences with phrase «by his personality app»
Facebook said Kogan breached its rules by giving Cambridge Analytica the information gathered by his personality app.
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The app in question, This is Your Digital Life, was a personality quiz designed by researcher Aleksandr Kogan in 2014.
That Facebook app, called «This is Your Digital Life,» was a personality quiz created in 2014 by an academic researcher named Aleksander Kogan, who paid about 270,000 people to take it.
About 270,000 people had downloaded an app Kogan had developed, «thisisyourdigitallife,» which «offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
His app, «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
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 app, called «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.
The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.
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 was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).
Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.
The reports said the firm had secretly harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users shared with it by Cambridge University scholar Aleksandr Kogan, who had built a personality test app.
The data was obtained after roughly 300,000 users installed a personality quiz app called «thisisyourdigitallife» that was designed by Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher.
Kogan developed a personality test app called thisisyourdigitallife, which he billed as «a research app used by psychologists,» according to Facebook.
Facebook disclosed late Friday that it knew Cambridge Analytica had taken users» information without their consent by obtaining it from a psychology researcher who legitimately gleaned details on users» likes and habits via a personality quiz app in 2013.
Facebook said it knew Cambridge had violated its policies by obtaining the data, which users had agreed to share with a personality prediction app that then, secretly, passed them on.
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.
Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.
Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan reportedly shared user data collected by his Facebook personality test app with Cambridge Analytica, a company that worked to develop social media ads for the Trump campaign.
The app created by Kogan in 2014 offered a personality prediction and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
«Approximately 270,000 Facebook users downloaded an app created by University of Cambridge researcher Dr. Aleksandr [Kogan] purporting to offer personality predictions for users,» wrote Wyden.
The app, «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered a personality prediction and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
Cambridge Analytica obtained the data through a psychological testing app, called Thisisyourdigitallife, that offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
A Cambridge University professor working for Cambridge Analytica in 2014 created an app, called Thisisyourdigitallife, that offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
Facebook confirmed Friday that Strategic Communication Laboratories - owned Cambridge Analytica had obtained profiles accessed by another developer, which had properly gotten them when users signed up for a personality prediction app called «thisisyourdigitallife.»
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GSR was run by the Cambridge University psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, who built an app that was a personality test for Facebook users.
The information was amassed via a personality quiz app created by a Cambridge Analytica subsidiary.
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.
A Cambridge University professor working for Cambridge Analytica in 2014 created an app, called Thisisyourdigitallife, that offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
His app, called thisisyourdigitallife, offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
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This app defies the typical hookup culture of mainstream dating websites by offering personality - based tools so women get to know one another in a more flexible and friendly environment.
Tynski's new app Sapio aims to offer an alternative by connecting like - minded singles «who are both physically and intellectually attractive» over their answers to a series of personality questions stored on the app.
You can register directly via the app by submitting your email address, choosing a password, and by completing the personality test.
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According to a recent study conducted by Zoosk, we should all be changing our dating app bio to something that has nothing to do with looks or personality..
By inputting information about their pets» personalities and how they interact with strangers, the app can offer suggestions that could lead to recovering the lost animal faster.
Kogan developed an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» that purported to offer a personality prediction in the form of «a research app used by psychologists.»
Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.
His app, «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
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.
Cambridge Analytica got its hands on millions of people's Facebook likes in 2014 by getting an academic, Aleksander Kogan, to design an app with a personality test that hoovered up...
It was heavily influenced by a similar personality - quiz app made by the Psychometrics Centre, a Cambridge University laboratory where Kogan worked.
The app, called «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered personality predictions and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
The app, «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered a personality prediction and billed itself on Facebook as «a research app used by psychologists.»
The app was billed as a personality quiz that would be used by Cambridge University researchers.
The data was gathered through a personality test app called «This Is Your Digital Life» that was downloaded by fewer than 200,000 people.