Sentences with phrase «do about the data breach»

What's revealing about the Cambridge Analytica affair is that Facebook's critics seem more exercised about the Trump connection than they do about the data breach.

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Recent news of a massive data breach has made some Facebook users wonder: What does Facebook know about me, and how can I control it?

Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both retail chains, released a statement Sunday about the data breach, noting that it does not impact shoppers who bought items on digital platforms.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

Facebook found out about Cambridge Analytica's breach in 2015, but it didn't notify users who had their data taken without their permission.

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).

Facebook, meanwhile, has sought to explain that the mishandling of user data was out of its hands and doesn't constitute a «breach» — a definition that would require the company to alert users about whether their information was taken, per U.S. Federal Trade Commission rules.

By submitting User Materials to or using the Site, you represent that you have the full legal right to provide the User Materials, that such User Materials will not: (a) divulge any protected health information or infringe any intellectual property rights of any person or entity or any rights of publicity, personality, or privacy of any person or entity, including without limitation as a result of your failure to obtain consent to post personally identifying or otherwise private information about a person or which impersonates another person; (b) violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; (c) be defamatory, libelous or trade libelous, unlawfully threatening, or unlawfully harassing or embarrassing; (d) be obscene, child pornographic, or indecent; (e) violate any community or Internet standard; (f) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data or personal information, or that facilitate or enable such or that are intended to do any of the foregoing; (g) result in product liability, tort, breach of contract, personal injury, death, or property damage; (h) constitute misappropriation of any trade secret or know - how; or (i) constitute disclosure of any confidential information owned by any third party.

Seldom do the schools provide the teacher with prior information about the persons to be taught, given the fear of breaching the existing legislation regarding the protection of the rights of the child or the data protection law.

Nick Barbagiannopoulos, Digital Automation & Solutions Manager for Ricoh Australia, addresses what the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme means for schools — and what they need to do about it.

Recent headlines about data breaches at retail stores and universities may have you wondering if there's anything you can do to help protect your credit going forward.

It's a heavy subject — and, frankly, scary to think about — so they needed to find a powerful way to explain exactly how data breaches happen and what companies can do to protect themselves.

All lawyers have a similar rule on confidentiality, but different states and practice areas have different rules about what to do in the event of a data breach — and what constitutes a breach in the first place.

All you have to do is say data breach and just about anybody, anywhere, on the street corner, will know what you're talking about.

Interestingly, the Law Society of British Columbia, which issued a fraud alert about the CryptoWall attack, did not require these law firms to advise clients of the attacks despite the duty of confidentiality if the encrypted data was not «necessarily breached» and client files had not been accessed.

How to have a conversation with clients about data security (in terms of potential added costs and what to do in the event of a breach) would also be considered.

Learn about network security from the misfortunes of others: Fowler notes that the media do a good job reporting data network breaches.

If you're worried about data breaches, though, don't just cut the internet cable and put Hello Barbie in the blender.

Far too often, business owners just don't think about identity theft or data breaches until it's too late.

Facebook didn't alert users that Cambridge Analytica was in possession of wrongfully obtained data, even though it knew about it for years, and although the company says it's going to alert everyone effected, without a federal data breach notification requirement, there's nothing preventing the company from deciding to keep users in the dark again.

The reports to European data protection authorities, which were filed simultaneously by multiple consumer organizations, cite news coverage that Facebook didn't adequately protect its users» data — firstly by being careless about providing third parties access to it and secondly for not rectifying the breach when the company became aware of it back in 2015 — as a reason to investigate possible infractions in Europe.

Despite reportedly having evidence that Cambridge Analytica had illegitimately collected user data, Facebook did not suspend Cambridge Analytica until Friday — more than two years after the alleged data breach from Cambridge Analytica was first reported, and four days after The Guardian reportedly sought comment from Facebook about the story.

Facebook, meanwhile, has sought to explain that the mishandling of user data was out of its hands and doesn't constitute a «breach» - a definition that would require the company to alert users about whether their information was taken, per U.S. Federal Trade Commission rules.

And since, representatives of the company have quibbled with reporters over Twitter, describing the data misuse as a «breach» instead of explaining why it didn't inform the public about it for years.

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).

With all the reporting on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, the liberal media are silent about Barack Obama doing the same and more in 2012.

Not a day goes by that we don't hear some bad news about a new data breach, a hacking scandal or identity theft.

With all the reporting on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, it is noteworthy that the liberal media are silent about Barack Obama doing the same and more in 2012.

Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted passwords.

Although the poll didn't explicitly ask about the Cambridge Analytica data breach that came to light two weeks ago, the timing of the poll coincides with when the public found out about the breach and the #DeleteFacebook hashtag began circulating on social media.

«I don't think there's a risk to consumers in terms of credit reports that are ordered by employers,» Brad Landin, President and Chief Compliance Officer of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a global background check firm located in the San Francisco area, told Bloomberg BNA in an interview about the Equifax data breach.