Sentences with phrase «data for nefarious purposes»

Ever wonder what would happen if Tim Cook decided to go evil and use everyone's iPhone data for nefarious purposes?

That's not to say calls for openness are wrong — but before complaining that someone is «hiding» data for some nefarious purpose, it is a very good idea to establish first whether it is likely that it matters in the first place.

Not exact matches

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

Still, Case defended Grindr's decision to share the data, arguing that Apptimize and Localytics are simply tools to help apps like Grindr function better, and that the information was not shared to make money or for other nefarious purposes.

Folks on the list might feel otherwise but ascribing some nefarious purpose to the use of an existing collection of data for analysis when that data is so plainly useful seems quite a stretch of imagination.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

I think the story is about a researcher who flagrantly violated the likely terms of any data - sharing agreement he had with Facebook for research purposes and the company, Cambridge Analytica, that either knowingly or unknowingly used the data for potentially nefarious purposes without vetting the source of that data and any restrictions associated with it.

But some security experts say that this argument about whether the data was being sold to a third party for nefarious purposes or not misses the point: that HIV data is highly sensitive, and that sharing it with any outside companies is a move away from the security of its users.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Cambridge Analytica.

«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.

The heart of the matter is how an app created by Dr Aleksandr Kogan was able to access so much data that could be used by groups for nefarious purposes, despite apparent guardrails Facebook had put in place to prevent such abuse.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by...

The information in the repositories showed data of a sensitive nature that could potentially have been exploited or misused for nefarious purposes, according to UpGuard.

Whether it's businesses trying to extract marketing data or hackers and thieves mining information for more nefarious purposes, trackers and malware worm their way into devices all the time, collecting personal details and even slowing down your phone or tablet.

Moreover, third - party services» popularity also means that more and more people store huge amounts of private data and communications online, making these sites ripe for governments and civil lawyers seeking information about citizens, whether for law enforcement purposes or more nefarious reasons.

DeRosa notes that with all the high - profile hacks within the last two years, targeting companies like LinkedIn, Dropbox, DocuSign, Google, and Yahoo, it's likely that your data is up for sale on a section of the internet that is not indexed by search engines, and is often used for nefarious purposes.