Sentences with phrase «by revelations about»

It is part of the continued response to a bruising data handling scandal sparked by revelations about Cambridge Analytica.

But any doubt that the resistance to public understanding of the climate problem is to a large extent the result of deliberate obfuscation by a cynical oligarchy is put to rest by the revelations about Heartland.

81) The UK's Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man - made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.

«I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein,» Clinton said in a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill.

The sexual harassment firestorm prompted by revelations about producer Harvey Weinstein has since burned through careers in Washington, Silicon Valley and statehouses around the country — including Sacramento.

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton says she was «shocked and appalled» by the revelations about disgraced movie titan Harvey Weinstein, who faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse and harassment from some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

And yet — incongruously precipitated by revelations about MPs» bills for duck houses, trouser presses and servants» quarters — there is a widespread acknowledgment that Britain's political system is in a profound crisis.

But the Schools Secretary has been badly damaged by the revelations about McBride, who is widely thought to have been running his unofficial leadership campaign.

Not exact matches

The service gained popularity following the Edward Snowden revelations about U.S. government surveillance and has since been used by ISIS and other terrorist groups to disseminate information.

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

Defenders of the bill argue that it would give more clarity to the legal status of interception requests, helping to clean up the mess exposed and aggravated by Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of NSA spying, including on targets outside the U.S..

The new revelation about Comey's uneasiness with Trump brings to mind a posting last month by Comey friend Benjamin Wittes on his Lawfare blog, in which he said Comey «saw it as an ongoing task on his part to protect the rest of the Bureau from improper contacts and interferences from a group of people he did not regard as honorable.»

The latest revelation about U.S. government surveillance comes by way of a June 14 Bloomberg report that says «thousands» of American companies are working with U.S. intelligence agencies in a mutually beneficial arrangement where the latter secretly piggybacks on normal commercial operations.

Corporate tax avoidance has risen to the top of the political agenda in Britain in recent years, following revelations about the complex tax structures used by big companies like Starbucks and Google.

If they worried about being burned by a corporate fraud before, investors today are more concerned about making the wrong bet based on outsiders» supposed revelations.

But the court spent most of an hour Tuesday discussing Enron's bankruptcy in 2001 amid startling revelations that its top executives manipulated the company's earnings and stock price by lying to employees and investors about Enron's financial health.

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

New revelations from The New York Times and an admission from Facebook about the improper use of user data by Cambridge Analytica have once again thrown a spotlight on the technology industry's inadequate privacy protections.

[These are the comments I made on a press call just now about the revelations from this article by Ben Penn..

The company's growth does not appear to have been stalled by privacy concerns, although the revelations about Cambridge Analytica and a #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed from some irate users did not occur until late in the quarter, and could be reflected in future earnings.

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».

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Given his 2011 complaint about Facebook's expansive and abusive historical app permissions, Schrems has this week raised an eyebrow and expressed surprise at Zuckerberg's claim to be «outraged» by the Cambridge Analytica revelations — now snowballing into a massive privacy scandal.

Najib was buffeted last year by allegations of graft and mismanagement at the debt - laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and by a revelation that about $ 681 million was deposited into his personal bank account.

2 These workshops took place in early 2013, prior to the revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the agency's cyberespionage activities.

Public reaction to this complex picture has been reminiscent of the last time there was widespread outrage about social media in political life — the revelations made by Edward Snowden in June 2013.

Revelations about Facebook's role in the exploitation of user data by a company called Cambridge Analytica have provoked widespread calls for tough, new data privacy laws.

President Donald Trump is shifting his story about the Stormy Daniels controversy following the revelation by his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, that the President reimbursed a payment to the adult film actress by Michael Cohen.

Although there are still redactions, the JFK documents released by the National Archives appear to contain noteworthy revelations — including about the FBI agent who destroyed a note Oswald dropped off at the FBI before the assassination.

Like Hollywood, Washington and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

CBS, for instance, quoted RNC chair Reince Priebus as saying, «With each revelation about her growing email scandal or conflicts of interest at her State Department, Hillary Clinton is getting more beatable by the day.»

While companies have different rules about relationships between employees — some prohibit them, while others require disclosure — Uber is in a dicey spot right now and any revelations of an out - of - control company culture, especially by top execs, are problematic at this time.

«We are concerned by the recent revelations about Facebook and the exploitation of its platform,» Sonos wrote in the post.

The Fowler revelation was followed by the departures of two top execs, engineering head Amit Singhal and product head Ed Baker, after reports by Recode about their questionable behavior related to women.

On the day that Daniels canceled the deal, protesters gathered in front of Trump Tower in New York City to express outrage over week - old revelations that the Republican presidential nominee had once bragged about grabbing women by the crotch, news that was prompting a number of women to come forward with stories of alleged sexual misconduct by the candidate.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

Revelations in recent years by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden about widespread surveillance of communications have done nothing to dispel the wariness of civil libertarians and privacy advocates concerning sovereignty over data.

These developments include major data privacy breaches such as the Equifax leak, the troubling revelations about the use of personal data assembled by Facebook for marketing and political manipulation, and the introduction of the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulations, which establish new facts on the ground regarding compliance for globally active companies.

Speculation the takeover would not be completed has been fired up by a series of setbacks, including early concerns about capital gains tax owed to the government of Sierra Leone by Sierra Rutile shareholders, an extended review by German anti-trust regulators, and then last week the revelation of «geotechnical risks» at the target's tailings dams.

This self - examination is brought about by the proclamation that the life and death of Jesus are a revelation of God's righteousness.

By this revelation then, the deepest truth about God and thesalvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator and the fullness of all revelation.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

The crucivision approach to Scripture allows the revelation of Jesus to be the guide and lens by which we interpret the rest of the revelation about God in Scripture.

If, however, instead of correct belief about God's self - revelation in Christ, experience of the living God present by the power of the Spirit in Jesus Christ is at the heart of Christian fellowship, then the Christian community becomes a circle of friends who strengthen each other in their search for deeper awareness of divine reality and love.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

Nowadays, I listen to a couple of pastors online once in awhile, and many of the books I read are by former «church pastors,» who had the same type of revelation about the character of God that I had.

Revelation begins with a brief statement about the nature of the book: it is a revelation given by God to Christ and indicated by an angel to God's servant John; and it concerns what is to take place in the near future (1:1 - 3).

By the way why didn't you quote the scripture from the book of revelation where it talks about Jesus sporting a tattoo on his thigh when he returns?

Goodman argues that human reason, unaided by special revelation, can teach us much about God» including a basic understanding of what He requires of us in our practical conduct.

So while we will not appeal to revelation, there are insights about God that have been developed through the ages, passed on by the great religions, and confirmed or maybe even originated in our own lives.