Sentences with phrase «deleting user data»

Most Android devices offer no way of easily deleting user data such as access tokens, messages, images, and other content.

They certified deleting user data they received from an app developer in 2015 but we have since learned that not all of it may have been removed.

On Friday, Facebook announced that it had suspended Cambridge Analytica, suggesting the firm had not been honest about deleting user data sent to it by the makers of a popular psychology test app.

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, a political data analytics firm that worked on Facebook ads for President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, saying that it lied about deleting user data sent to it by the makers of a popular psychology test app.

Facebook has recently promised a «full forensic audit» to learn if Cambridge Analytica deleted user data as promised.

Late Friday, confronted with mounting evidence that it was wrong, the Silicon Valley company tried to get ahead of media reports by putting out a blog post that it had received «reports» that Cambridge Analytica hadn't deleted the user data and that it had suspended the firm.

This process will also delete all user data and will restore your tablet to the original condition.

LawPal will delete all user data on December 1st.

On Friday, Facebook said it» received reports» that Cambridge Analytica hadn't deleted the user data, and that it needed to suspend the firm.

At the time, Facebook demanded and received a formal certification from the firm that it had deleted all user data acquired through improper means.

Facebook bans Kogan's app and demands that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica prove they deleted the user data.

This option will delete all user data and restore the PS4 to its original state.

Facebook said the two companies had failed to delete user data it had acquired in 2015 in violation of the platform's rules.

The company's download tool will be available until April 1st, after which Nextbit will delete all user data from its servers.

Flashing Android P deletes all user data on a given smartphone.

Matthew's goal isn't to help you poison your data, but to raise awareness of the fact that the US and Canada do not have «right to be forgotten» policies in place, which could force Facebook to actually delete user data for those customers who delete their profiles.

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Another hitch is that shared data, such as messages, will remain accessible by other users unless they delete it on their end.

The hack has proven user information was never really secure, and the company may have retained data even after users paid to have it deleted.

Facebook has said that it was notified years ago that its users» data was in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, and that it followed up to demand it be deleted.

Last week, New York Magazine reported that several users had found videos they thought they'd deleted when they downloaded their Facebook data archive.

When asked why Facebook didn't follow up when it found that Cambridge Analytica was abusing user data back in 2016, Sandberg told Guthrie: «You are right — we could have done this two and a half years ago... We thought the data had been deleted and we should have checked.»

Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has continued the company's apology tour over its data scandal, acknowledging that Facebook knew Cambridge Analytica had mishandled users» data two and a half years ago but saying the company failed to follow up when the consulting firm said the data had been deleted.

Ransomware often encrypts user files and threatens to delete the encryption key if a ransom is not paid within some relatively short period of time, but other forms of ransomware involve a criminal actually stealing user data and threatening to publish it online if a ransom is not paid.

In particular, in a now - deleted set of tweets, Stamos pushed back against the idea that Cambridge's acquisition of user data constituted a «breach.»

According to Facebook's website, it could take 90 days to delete all of the things a user has posted, including pictures, status updates and other data stored in its backup system.

Users still won't be able to delete data that they had given third - party apps on the platform previously, even if it was used for reasons other than what users agreeUsers still won't be able to delete data that they had given third - party apps on the platform previously, even if it was used for reasons other than what users agreeusers agreed to.

Facebook Inc. said it will make it more straight - forward for users to change their privacy settings and delete data they've already shared with the social - media company.

Users reportedly have to provide Uber with a written request to have data completely deleted.

Jason argues companies should be required to ask users if they want to see their stored data every 90 days, and to delete data regularly.

Facebook is introducing new tools to make it easier for users to check their privacy settings, access their data and delete private details

She added that Facebook believed that Cambridge Analytica deleted users» data because «they gave us assurances, and it wasn't until other people told us it wasn't true.»

Facebook also responded by deploying forensic auditors from Stroz Friedberg to Cambridge Analytica's offices on Monday to certify that the UK data analytics firm had, indeed, deleted the data on 50 million Facebook users it collected in 2015.

Since reports of Cambridge Analytica's massive harvest of Facebook user data surfaced last week, multiple media outlets have responded by reminding an agitated public that they do have options for deleting their Facebook accounts.

Here are @alexstamos now deleted tweets on the app Cambridge Analytica used to harvest millions of Facebook users» data.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

In that case, instead of informing the ~ 57M affected users and drivers that their personal data had been compromised, Uber's senior management also decided to try and make the problem go away — by asking (and in their case paying) hackers to delete the data.

When the Guardian informed Facebook about Kogan sharing user data to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook banned Kogan, and required Cambridge Analytica to formally certify that it had deleted all the improperly attained user data.

Essentially Facebook's line is that it believed the data had been deleted — and presumably, therefore, it calculated (wrongly) that it didn't need to inform users because it had made the leak problem go away via its own backchannels.

February 2009 — Facebook revises its terms of service to state that users can't delete their data when they leave the service and there's another outcry.

One developer told me they'd been inundated with requests from users to delete their data acquired through Facebook and add other login options, saying that the Cambridge Analytica scandal «really hurt consumer trust for all apps... even the good guys.»

As a result, in 2013 Facebook deleted all the photo tagging facial recognition data it had obtained from users in the EU.

The blog post also mentioned that Facebook was introducing tools to find, download and delete user Facebook data.

Plenty of proposals are floating around, including mandating new guidelines on transparency and data portability (the ability of users to essentially own their data, have it deleted, and take it from one platform to another), adjusting a law to hold social media platforms liable for users» content, and even potentially enacting comprehensive privacy legislation.

With the recent report of Facebook user's data being harvested and used for information warfare, many people are looking to delete their accounts or at least their Facebook posts in order to have a clean slate.

Facebook defended keeping users in the dark by saying it had thought Cambridge had deleted the data — and because it didn't qualify as a data breach, since users had agreed to share their data with the quiz app.

Facebook is building Clear History, a new privacy feature allowing users to delete data Facebook has collected from sites and apps that use its ads and analytics tool.

Facebook also said that Cambridge Analytica had agreed to a digital forensic audit of its servers and systems in an attempt to show that it deleted certain Facebook data it held on some American users.

The company came to public attention in March when Facebook announced — on the eve of two explosive newspaper reports in The New York Times and the U.K.'s Observer — it had learned Cambridge Analytica and its parent company had failed to delete personal data that the social network knew it had improperly obtained on Facebook users three years ago.

Musk also deleted the Facebook pages of both SpaceX and Tesla following the site's latest user data scandal: