Sentences with phrase «controversial data company»

The controversial data company also has friends in high places, from Tory party donors to the British military.

Klein, who co-leads the Senate majority and is therefore one of the four men in the room for budget negotiations, said Common Core changes will «probably» be part of the state budget, as well as a provision to end the state's relationship with a controversial data company.

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The company has been hit by negative headlines since a number of media publications reported that the data of millions of users were improperly harvested by controversial political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

In an amended public financial filing, Flynn was forced to disclose «a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign.»

Another data - point to flesh out the Facebook data misuse scandal: The company has informed the European Commission that a total of 2.7 million EU citizens had their information improperly shared with the controversial political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica (via Reuters).

InBloom, Inc., a controversial nonprofit data company, spent more than $ 50,000 on lobbying the first two months of 2014 as Cuomo and lawmakers considered whether to stall or end the state's relationship with it.

Democratic Unionist Party politician Jeffrey Donaldson has said that he couldn't remember why his party choose to spend more than # 32,000 during the Brexit campaign on a controversial data analytics company linked to Donald Trump.

DeCODE is the controversial Reykjavik company that 19 years ago set out to develop drugs by mining Icelanders» genetic and medical data for disease genes.

The White House today delivered a formal veto threat against a controversial data - sharing bill called CISPA that would allow intelligence agencies to collect personal information about Americans from private companies.

The data could spell bad news for coal companies that have resisted efforts by President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency and others to curtail the controversial mining method.

may significantly affect fundamental rights of the data subject... «It is however controversial in the sense that requests to remove online material from the source (the publishing company) could also have constituted some degree of focus — since this would have controlled possibility of further dissemination.

His data mining company Palantir is probably most famous for its contracts with government intelligence agencies, and he's a longtime Trump ally who has never wavered in response to the kind of controversial choices by the Trump administration that provoke outspoken backlash from most corners of Silicon Valley.

Years before the arrival of Kogan's turkers, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tried to address privacy concerns around the company's controversial Beacon program, which quietly funneled data from outside websites into Facebook, often without Facebook users being aware of the process.

Lawmakers are hoping to pin down Zuckerberg on how his company allowed Cambridge Analytica, a controversial political data analytics firm based in the United Kingdom, to acquire the data of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent.

Two data scientists who were instrumental in the founding of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica have scrubbed any mention of the controversial company from their social media profiles — but they are quietly building a new, and similar behavioral analysis firm, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Steve Bannon, former chief strategist and presidential adviser and vice president of the controversial Cambridge Analytica, has said in his recent speech that «Facebook data is for sale all over the world» and he had nothing to do with the company's acquisition of illegally obtained data.

FBI Director James Comey has hinted at growing consensus between technology companies and intelligence agencies over the controversial issue of how to access encrypted data.

Answering questions at a Senate oversight committee hearing this morning, FBI Director James Comey has hinted at growing consensus between technology companies and intelligence agencies over the controversial issue of how to access encrypted data.

The tumble for Facebook came as a result of a report that the company shared the data of as many as 50 million of its users with the controversial, United Kingdom - based political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — the same firm that helped the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in the 2016 election.