Sentences with phrase «data hoovered»

Steve Bannon is a megadick, but he's not wrong when he says data hoovering a la Cambridge Analytica is Facebook's whole business plan.

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The steady stream of revelations over the past year that the National Security Agency has been hoovering up companies» data is hurting international sales for U.S. - based companies, he adds.

For months, a hacker group hoovered up the credit giant's prized data: including names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers, in an attack that likely affected almost half the U.S. population.

The software gathers the data from CCTV cameras, ID checks, and «wifi sniffers» — tools that intercept wireless networks, and hoover up and decode the data transmitted through them, according to Human Rights Watch.

Facebook came under massive fire for first allowing Cambridge Analytica to hoover up user data from the platform, and second keeping quiet when it found out about it.

Zuckerberg pinned part of the blame on Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that hoovered up private info on 50 million users in an effort to tip the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

«The hard fact is most of the internet wouldn't operate at all today were it not for the huge value of our personal data, which is hoovered up and sold up for commercial marketing purposes,» Omand added.

As of December 31, 2002, data and images hoovered by the Hubble had given rise to 3,577 papers in refereed journals.

When I look at the Loom Analytics website, it seems that only Upper Canada lawyers will obtain any benefit from the service, at least right now; it also appears that this for - profit venture functions exclusively by Hoovering up the data I already paid for CanLII to provide as a public service: http://www.loomanalytics.com/our-data/

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 data from the 250,000 or so Facebook users that took it, as well as from their millions of friends.

The U.K. university's psychometrics department had its own personality test which had been hoovering up Facebook users» data since 2007, but, as the New York Times reported, and Kogan recently confirmed in an email, it refused to sell the dataset to the entity that became Cambridge Analytica (inspiring them to replicate the experiment).

This sounds more like Apple than a Siri speaker that's just another Google Home or not even an Alexa: When not being used to take orders (or hoover data like Google Home), it doubles as a music playback system.

Zuckerberg pinned part of the blame on Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that hoovered up private info on 50 million users in an effort to tip the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

Microsoft is hoovering up all the data it can get to better target ads, personalize the operating system, and improve its software and services.

The scientist who created the app used to hoover up data from 50million Facebook users said today he has been made a «scapegoat» and accused Cambridge Analytica of «selling magic» to its clients.