Sentences with phrase «data of friends of»

And it is clearly completely unacceptable that companies can obtain the data of friends of those who take quizzes.

Given the terms of service of the app and the existing Facebook API, the app also collected the data of friends of those who responded.

The app, however, also collected the data of friends of those who responded, due to the terms of service and Facebook's existing API.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg noted that Facebook changed its app platform in 2014, restricting the ability of app developers to harvest data on their users» Facebook friends.

Access to our data for Friends of Kings Park is only available to paid subscribers with BNiQ access.

But a poll conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of Maclean's for the Canada Project shows the country's citizens are getting more and more comfortable carrying large amounts of debt — with more of that money coming from family and friends.

While some 270,000 people are said to have used the personality - quiz app, Wylie said it was able to harvest data from 50 million Facebook accounts through the friend networks of those participants.

At the time, laxer privacy settings across Facebook meant Kogan had access to data from tens of millions more users after their friends had installed the app.

In 2003 he and the same friends thought they could make a free alternative to dating sites eHarmony and Match.com, so they created OkCupid, which pioneered the use of data mining in online dating.

At the heart of the issue is that this data trap for 300,000 users led to the misuse of data from their friends and family on the social network, and — it must be said — the data trap worked.

But there was a larger issue at play: The quiz had also pulled data from the profiles of the 270,000 participants» friends, resulting in a trove of data from millions of users — as many as 50 million.

«Friends don't let friends build data centers,» said Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, a business software maker, about two yeaFriends don't let friends build data centers,» said Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, a business software maker, about two yeafriends build data centers,» said Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, a business software maker, about two years ago.

AggregateIQ was connected to the scandal following allegations made by Canadian data expert and whistle - blower Christopher Wylie, who was once a friend and colleague of Silvester and Massingham.

The app collected data on tens of millions of people and their Facebook friends, even those who did not download the app themselves.

Friend was reportedly central to the development of Apple's healthcare frameworks, HealthKit, ResearchKit, and CareKit — frameworks designed to help researchers, developers, and users access and record health data.

With this alternating pattern, you can keep one of the drives at work, or in a fireproof safe, a bank deposit box, a friend's house, or other off - site location to protect your data from a home - office catastrophe.

It also gathered data from their Facebook friends, which reportedly resulted in Kogan having access to the data of millions of Facebook profiles.

Again, this is one of those presents that you'll receive thanks for via a 2:43 AM text, when the internet is down and your friend needs to get data from one place to another.

Citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Walmart said some 65 % of opioid abusers get them from unwitting family and friends.

Zhima Credit is an optional service embedded in Alipay that calculates users» personal credit based on data such as spending history, friends on Alipay's social network, and other types of consumer behavior.

Using big data analytics, Pursway gives companies a way to determine pockets of purchase influence — the customers most likely to drive additional sales and the prospects most likely to respond to offers and buy — based on the simple concept that friends buy what their friends buy.

Here's another: «Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences — for example with «Friends Only.»

Lastly, Facebook has now instituted Login Review, where a team of its employees audit any app that requires more than the basic data of someone's public profile, list of friends, and email address.

Jim Symbouras's profile data was collected dozens of times after Facebook friends of his were directed to the online survey.

Facebook took most of the criticism because of its permissive app permissions model that allowed Cambridge Analytica to collect data from friends of app users, not just the app users themselves.

Data that could be easily accessed from friends included names of users, their education and work histories, birthdays, likes, locations, photos, relationship statuses, and religious and political affiliations.

Once they did, an app then harvested their data and that of their friends.

Less than a second later, a Facebook app had harvested not only Mr. Deason's profile data, but also data from the profiles of 205 of his Facebook friends.

And that's what Facebook's policies used to allow by letting Facebook «friends» basically authorize the use of a user's personal data for them.

Now on the log - in screen, developers must include an «Edit the info you provide» link, which opens a checklist of all the data and permissions they're asking for, including friend list, Likes, email address, and the ability to post to the News Feed.

Mr. Symbouras does not personally know any of the Facebook friends who granted the app access to his data.

Those APIs were updated in 2015 to remove the ability to see that kind of friend data, a move Stamos said was «controversial» with app developers at the time.

It's the realization that you've handed over an accumulation of years and years of data — data you gave Facebook back when it first introduced that big blue login button on sites around the web, data you gave to app developers who turned around and scooped up your friends» data, too.

«The data gathered through the TIYDL [Kogan's thisisyourdigitallife] app did not include the email addresses of app installers or their friends.

His data was collected dozens of times after 52 of his Facebook friends were directed to the psychological questionnaire, many by a site called Swagbucks.

Facebook was hit with one of its biggest scandals ever when multiple outlets reported that a researcher's app pulled personal information about 270,000 users and 50 million of their friends, then passed that data to Cambridge Analytica.

While many people thought they were downloading a fairly harmless personality quiz app, Cambridge Analytica was using Facebook's API to gather data about the users of this app, but also the friends of the users.

A pair of blockbuster reports from the New York Times and the UK's Observer released Saturday explained the scope of the problem: Cambridge Analytica collected the data not only of the approximately 270,000 users who agreed to take Kogan's personality quiz but also their friends, thus harvesting information on tens of millions of people without their knowledge or permission.

It was installed by around 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends» data.

Generally, apps aren't placing their fine print front and center when we're using them, nor are they priming us to think too hard about what the long - term or large - scale ramifications of providing our data — and in this case, our friends» data — could be.

It most likely wasn't hard: Stillwell had accidentally stumbled across a treasure trove of Facebook users who seemed willing, by the millions, to give up their data to his third - party app, along with all the data of people in their Facebook friend networks.

Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access tens of millions of their friends» data.

This week the New York Times and The Observer of London reported that a researcher's app had pulled personal information on about 270,000 Facebook users and 50 million of their friends back in 2015, and then passed that data haul to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebook's policies.

Zuckerberg explained that the roots of the Cambridge Analytica data access date back to 2007, when Facebook launched a platform «with the vision that more apps should be social» that would allow users to log into apps and share who their friends were and their information.

Individual responses from 270,000 people on this particular test became a gateway to more data, including that belonging to another 87 million of their friends.

The really egregious part of it is that the Facebook friends of these app users had their data accessed as well, and they never consented to any of it.

The data was acquired via a third - party app, and the company behind the app harvested information not just from the users of that app but also from the Facebook friends of users.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

But prior to that these had been lax enough for vast amounts of personal data to be sucked out without most users being aware — because the data sharing was being «authorized» by their Facebook friends (who also likely weren't aware what they were agreeing to).

«Friend suggestions, profiling for advertising, use of data gathered from like buttons and web pixels (also completely missing from «all your Facebook data»), and the newsfeed algorithm itself are completely opaque.»