Sentences with phrase «exploitation of user data»

«The contemporary Internet runs on the exploitation of user data,» the author wrote, before citing examples of corporations flagrantly flaunting user privacy to extract data.

Even as I know one of the main goals of any internet - connected business is the procurement and exploitation of user data, including the selling of customer information to third parties, it still never occurred to me that e-readers were mining information about the private reading habits of users.

Revelations about Facebook's role in the exploitation of user data by a company called Cambridge Analytica have provoked widespread calls for tough, new data privacy laws.

In addition to changing its API, which the Observer reports as a direct response to CA's exploitation of user data, the company also demanded that CA certify that it had destroyed all remnants of the data set.

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These include the spread of fake news by Russian trolls and the alleged exploitation of Facebook user data by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

So, I listened with fascination as Mr. Zuckerberg answered a battery of questions posed by members of Congress (many having absolutely no idea how social platforms work) regarding the exploitation of Facebook's user base as a motherlode for data mining companies like Cambridge Analytica.

Its weak policy enforcement left the door open to exploitation of data users gave third - party apps, deepening the perception that Facebook doesn't care about privacy.

For example, recently 6.5 million logins from a major social networking site were stolen and within a week almost two - thirds of those passwords had been cracked making a large proportion of the user base vulnerable to further exploitation and compromise of their personal data.

Its weak policy enforcement left the door open to exploitation of data users gave third - party apps, deepening the perception that Facebook doesn't care about privacy.

Advertisers are telling Facebook that «enough is enough» following a data breach that left millions of users» information open to exploitation.

But now that Facebook has finally made these admissions about how easy it was for third parties, whether marketing researchers, cyber-criminals, or foreign propagandists, it raises the question of why the social media company didn't do a better job right from the start of protecting its greatest asset — users» personal data — from unrestricted exploitation.

AP reported that the proposed class - action complaint filed late Tuesday night by a Maryland resident is the first of what could be many lawsuits seeking damages over Facebook's ability to protect user data, and Cambridge Analytica's exploitation of that data to benefit President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.