Sentences with phrase «data for political purposes»

Looking ahead: Something to follow in the weeks ahead — the misuse of data gathered from Facebook has received a lot of attention after the story broke that Cambridge Analytica was mining data for political purposes.

She added that a bill is being brought forward on data protection that will give tougher powers to the Information Commissioner's Office - which scrutinises the use of the public's private data for political purposes - to ensure organisations comply.

Confirming the warrant earlier Friday, the UK Information Commissioner's Office said the operation was «just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes,» adding that it «will now need time to collect and consider the evidence.»

«I have been examining this service in the context of my wider investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes and had raised it with Facebook as a significant area of concern,» she said.

«This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes and we will now need time to collect and consider the evidence.»

In March 2018, amid story after damaging story about data - gathering and electoral manipulation using social media and increasing concerns over misuse of Facebook data for political purposes, a graphic that appeared online in March 2018 brought attention to how that information is tallied:

Showing corruption of NOAA data for political purposes makes a political, not a scientific point.

There's really no way these results bear on the question of human induced climate warming... I think the sad thing is the a company with the resources of ExxonMobil is exploiting the data for political purposes.»

She added that a bill is being brought forward on data protection that will give tougher powers to the Information Commissioner's Office - which scrutinises the use of the public's private data for political purposes - to ensure organisations comply.

Reports that Facebook harvested and abused users» data for political purposes emerged Friday, as the company's former partnership with the voter - profiling company Cambridge Analytica was exposed.

«This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes,» the office said in a statement after a judge granted the request for a warrant.

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(Whether the 50 million affected Facebook users will be notified that their data was used to build «psychographic profiles» for the purposes of shaping their political beliefs remains to be seen.)

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

AggregateIQ is now among 30 companies being investigated by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

The company's activities are being looked at as part of a wider investigation by the ICO into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

Last month the UK's data protection agency obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica — as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed procdata analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed procdata to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed procData Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed process.

Almost a year ago, in May 2017, the ICO announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes — including looking into complaints related to Cambridge Analytica's use of data for ad targeting.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

The researcher hired by Cambridge Analytica, Alexandr Kogan, told Facebook and his app's users that he was collecting information for academic purposes, not for a political data firm owned by a wealthy conservative.

Shipping indices, including the Baltic Dry Freight Index, World Container Index, and Shanghai Containerized Freight Index — the sort of data that can not easily be massaged or beautified for political purposes — have all shown significant recent declines.

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.

The Apple chief has also called for stronger data privacy regulations in light of the scandal, which saw the data of 50 million Facebook users improperly harvested and used for political purposes.

Whatever you think of the result, whatever side you were on, the noise about data mining for political purposes, unease about what was being done behind the scenes by all politicians, it has raised questions again about whether Cambridge Analytica did any work for Vote Leave.

Earlier, psychologists at Cambridge University harvested Facebook data (legally) for research purposes and published pioneering peer - reviewed work about determining personality traits, political partisanship, sexuality and much more from people's Facebook «likes».

Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic working with Cambridge Analytica, allegedly violated Facebook's terms of use by saying the data would be used for academic purposes, not political purposes.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

It matters not whether they set cut scores high or low, the net result is blatant data manipulation for political purposes.

Every strategy was designed for the purpose of keeping truth seekers from finding out how flawed the data is on climate change and global warming — and from discovering just how far these radical green activists will go to push their political agenda.

I think investigative work like this is a good antidote for scientific data being modulated or fictionalized for political or ideological purposes.

This month, Mark Zuckerberg admits that his social network made mistakes that led to the exploitation of data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica; China passes a law to allow current president Xi Jinping to rule for life; damning book by «secret barrister» tells of courts plagued by daily errors leaving them unfit for purpose; and a court has ruled parents do not need to lie about the Easter bunny.

What do the Equifax breach, Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook users» data for political campaign purposes and Grindr's sharing of users» HIV status have in common?

Back in Europe, the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, was already investigating Facebook as part of a wider investigation into data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

AggregateIQ is now among 30 companies being investigated by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

The phone - scraping revelations broke as full - page Facebook ads ran in several Sunday papers in the United Kingdom and United States, apologizing for having allowed Cambridge Analytica to use the personal data of some 50 million users for political purposes.

The company has been at the center of an unrelenting firestorm following revelations that it allowed Cambridge Analytica to mine private data belonging to 50 million of its users without permission, which Cambridge Analytica then leveraged for political purposes.

According to Facebook, Dr. Kogan provided Cambridge Analytica — a political data analytics firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign and financed by billionaire Robert Mercer — access to information about 50 million Facebook users, all the while telling Facebook the data was being gathered for academic purposes.

According to the post, University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan passed data obtained from a «personality prediction» app (thisisyourdigitallife) to Cambridge Analytica and others for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

Musk's decision comes as users are abandoning Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, where it emerged that the startup had harvested 50 million users» data for political campaigning purposes.

It is a key subject in two inquiries in the UK — by the Electoral Commission, into the firm's possible role in the EU referendum, and the Information Commissioner's Office, into data analytics for political purposes — and one in the US, as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Trump - Russia collusion.

What is surprising is that an academic researcher could so flagrantly violate the spirit and the terms of the data - sharing policies Facebook has in place by taking that data and giving it to a firm that was never authorized to have it in the first place for the purposes of political targeting.

Almost a year ago, in May 2017, the ICO announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes — including looking into complaints related to Cambridge Analytica's use of data for ad targeting.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

However, the statement did not mention Mr Kogan, his company, or Cambridge Analytica, instead saying it was part of an «ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes».

It's those kinds of permissions that researcher Aleksandr Kogan allegedly abused years later to gather data on unwitting Facebook users for purposes of targeted political messaging.

To recap: Facebook has admitted that political research firm Cambridge Analytica, linked to both President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Brexit leave vote, improperly obtained data from as many as 87 million Facebook users for ad targeting purposes.