Sentences with phrase «deceiving users»

He explained that Apple IDs can be exploited to squeeze money out of almost any aspect of the Apple ecosystem, from deceiving users with spam Apple Messages, to locking users out of their devices and demanding ransom, to artificially pumping up the user ratings of dodgy apps so that they rank in the Top 10 on the App Store.

Namely that Cambridge Analytica has been banned from the platform for deceiving users to obtain personal data and then (possibly) not deleting that data when Facebook told it to.

Facebook agreed to the settlement, known as a consent decree, in 2011, after allegedly deceiving users over how much personal information they were sharing.

«We're concerned that Facebook is deceiving its users,» said Lisa Feinberg, another law student behind the Complaint.

Schneiderman is not merely stating that their games are a form of gambling, he is accusing the companies of deceiving users and misrepresenting their product.

Facebook agreed then to settle the commission's charges that it deceived users by assuring them their information would remain private, then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.

involves fake accounts pretending to be notable digital currency figures in an attempt to deceive users for profit.

Further, a scheme currently prominent on Twitter involves fake accounts pretending to be notable digital currency figures in an attempt to deceive users for profit.

Secondly, Google's webmaster guidelines specifically advise against deceptive linkbaiting: «Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as «cloaking.»»

-LSB-...] bots to deceive their users.

As per the new rules introduced in the Google Play Developer Program Policy, developers will have to ensure their apps does not engage in immoral activities or attempt to deceive users with nefarious advertising policies.

In the rare cases in which Google perceives that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we'll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved.

At issue for the company — and at the heart of the FTC probe — is a settlement they reached with the agency in November 2011, ending an investigation that Facebook deceived users about the privacy protections they are afforded on the site.

In 2011, Facebook settled with the FTC and entered a consent decree after the regulator ruled that the company had deceived its users about privacy claims.

Facebook agreed then to settle the commission's charges that it deceived users by assuring them their information would remain private, then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.

It deceives users into believing they've logged off the service and requests they login again.

In 2012, for example, Facebook settled with the FTC over charges it had deceived users by «telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public».

The filed complaint goes on to say that the iPhone slowdowns are unlawful due to the fact that Apple intentionally deceived users, failing to disclose both the fact that the slowdowns were happening at all and that slowed performance could be remedied more cheaply by purchasing a new battery (rather than splurging on a a whole new phone).

The malware delivered by a drive - by download is usually classified as a Trojan horse, or Trojan for short, because it deceives the user about the nature of the website or email.

Not exact matches

Google also reported taking down almost 80 million ads that were deceiving or misleading to users.

In addition, even the most conscientious of users can be deceived on Cyber Monday.

Under the terms of the 2011 settlement with the FTC, Facebook agreed to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of its resolution of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

Users will feel deceived when they arrive on your site in search of something else.

Facebook says that he deceived the company and its users when he commercialized data that was taken for legitimate research purposes and gave it to Cambridge Analytica.

Some dating sites will attempt to deceive visitors in regards to the number of active users by leaving inactive accounts showing.

This question bothers most of the users since they are afraid to be deceived.

In the end it's all about money and this website uses computer software bots to manipulate and deceive people and bait them into upgrading to paid membership so they can communicate with other users on the site.

The second reason they create user profiles is to market to you.They use these fake profiles to «market to you» by misleading and deceiving you so will want to upgrade your membership.

Each user must be cautious with these weaknesses, so that they do not get mislead or deceive.

One Fiverr user that went by bess98 offered to write the reviews from multiple computers, so as to deceive Amazon.

- If you have paid for the ability to have you name included to someone else's credit card as an authorized user it is likely that you are in the wrong for deceiving lenders.

The technical purpose is to bind users to specific actions in such a way that if they deny taking the action, they either demonstrate an intention to deceive, or they have been negligent in failing to secure the use of their private key adequately.

This factual difference from earlier cases where social engineering was used to deceive an authorized user to make a mistaken but authorized transfer was sufficient for the Medidata court to find coverage.

The men claim that the pharmaceutical giant ««deceived potential AndroGel users by relaying positive information through the press, including testimonials from retired professional athletes» and statistics suggesting a widespread need for the drugs, «while downplaying known adverse and serious health risks,» according to the complaints,» Bloomberg News reports.

Queensland Privacy Commissioner Linda Matthews has criticised Facebook for deceiving potential users about its purpose.

Users will enjoy using multitouch navigation to deceive and manipulate enemies as they lead their nation to victory.

Facebook executives have said in the past few days that a Cambridge University professor who collected Facebook user information through a personality - prediction quiz app, then shared it with Cambridge Analytica, deceived Facebook into thinking the data was being collected for academic research.

Under the 2011 settlement, Facebook agreed to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

In 2011, Facebook was accused of having deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they would have wanted by changing some user settings without notifying users.

Facebook says that he deceived the company and its users when he commercialized data that was taken for legitimate research purposes and gave it to Cambridge Analytica.

Under the terms of the 2011 settlement with the FTC, Facebook agreed to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of its resolution of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

Cambridge Analytica beginning in 2014 obtained data on 50 million Facebook users via means that deceived both the users and Facebook, the New York Times and London's Observer reported on Saturday.

The malware is disguised as a genuine application, and thus many internet users are deceived into downloading them.

In my view, these requirements were not met when Kogan deceived 270,000 users into thinking that their information would be used solely for research, and then managed to gain access to 50 million of their friends, who had no clue (and probably still don't) that their data was harvested as well.

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An even more recent example is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, but it can be deceived by a 2D photo of the registered user's face.

Users are often deceived by a cleverly named subdomain.

Pages and apps like this might have seemed innocent to the average Facebook user, but people in the marketing community were hardly deceived.