Sentences with phrase «data mining operations»

«Facebook is not a social media company; it is the largest data mining operation in existence,» the lawsuit says.

«That's because Facebook is not a social media company; it is the largest data mining operation in existence.»

Facebook is rife with data miners, with data mining operations frequently appearing as games or apps for entertainment, but asking permission to gather users» profile information and friends» information as well.

Even before news of a massive data mining operation of Facebook users broke, CEO Mark Zuckerberg had pledged to spend 2018 trying to fix everything that's gone wrong.

It has been going on in one form or another since at least just after Sept. 11, 2001, when President George W. Bush gave the go - ahead to Operation Stellar Wind, a huge, legally questionable data mining operation directed at every - day people.

The firm whose data mining operations helped set this whole thing in motion has been reeling from the attention.

The final suit (so far) was filed Monday by Cook County, Illinois, and calls Facebook «the largest data mining operation in existence.»

These data mining operations, which reportedly already burn as much energy as the Irish economy, are also rewarded with newly minted bitcoins until the total number of tokens generated reaches 21 million.

Those data mining operations frequently appear as games or apps that attempt to provide entertainment, but they share one feature — they ask permission to gather your profile information and they also go after your friends and gather that information as well.

Bannon said he had no knowledge of the data mining operation and instead put the blame on Facebook, saying the social network cared more about profits than privacy and «takes your data for free and creates huge margins.»