Sentences with phrase «false data about»

He filed suit against Spokeo, on behalf of himself and a class of similarly situated individuals, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which permits a remedy of up to $ 1000 per instance against a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that reports false data about an individual.

Goodreads is based on fake ratings and reviews, it's API is corrupt and defrauds consumers with false data about books which in turn has a negative impact on sales and search placement.

Not exact matches

People who know very little about buying apartments used this false data as an excuse to tell me not to buy them.

The facts are clearly otherwise and we hear every day about outside penetrations in which company and customer data is stolen, company funds and materials are misdirected and diverted, and millions of dollars of false receipts and invoices are created and fraudulently paid.

Equifax's lawyers at Choate, Hall & Stewart had argued (among many other things) that the AG can't wield the state consumer protection law, which prohibits businesses from making false, deceptive or unfair claims, without showing anyone was harmed by Equifax's supposedly false assurances about data security.

Gizmodo reports that complaint shareholder Fan Yuan has accused the company of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about its handling of user data, and failing to disclose the ongoing situation has reduced the value of Facebook shares.

«Railway data alone, and without proper context, can lead to false conclusions about the root cause of an issue,» CP spokesperson Jeremy Berry said in an email.

Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about the company's handling of user data — meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

Former Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified data and made false statements about experimental methods in six federally funded studies, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Research Integrity (ORI).

They tested DBT and DM according to four outcomes — true positive (TP), true negative (TN), false positive (FP), and false negative (FN) rates — by comparing the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) score (assigned at screening with data about subsequent cancer diagnosData System (BI-RADS) score (assigned at screening with data about subsequent cancer diagnosdata about subsequent cancer diagnosis).

Should the company make false statements about the results of the research, Susan and Dr. Centrifuge have a moral and ethical obligation to go public with the actual data as well.

Dr McBride admitted in a statement to the medical tribunal that he had altered data about drug dosages given to rabbits, and had taken «short cuts which a scientist should not take and, as a result, in publishing material which was false and misleading, and I regret this».

As an overall generalization, that statement is false: here is the data if you care to see the research about hunger and exercise: http://www.burnthefatblog.com/archives/2009/08/why-time-magazine-owes-the-fitness-industry-a-big-fat-apology.php

«Instead of stimulating worthy discussions about over-testing, cultural bias in tests, and the misuse of test data,» responded the anti-reform Network for Public Education in the Washington Post, «these activists would rather claim a false mantle of civil rights activism.»

However, the really BIG news in this article is not about Goodreads» TOS, rather it's the API you mentioned being full of false data.

Unfortunately, those looking to smear us have made false accusations of us not making the data available, which was just a lie... There are legitimate issues over whether a computer program you have written to implement an algorithm; if you're talking about a Microsoft or Apple computer, they would defend to the end their right to keep that.

Although the Penn State «investigation» committee didn't actually investigate the Climategate issues, the «wrong» data was asked about and, amazingly, Mann gave the same false answer to the Investigation COmmitee.

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

What we don't do, is argue about it, lower past temperatures 100 years after the fact to create a false impression of modern warming, and refuse to archive / supply data, and band together and call people names.

«No matter how fast or sophisticated those models are, feeding them false or unproven assumptions about CO2 and manipulated or «homogenized» temperature data still yields garbage output, scenarios and predictions.»

I'm willing to assert based on your comments that you are making FALSE assumptions not only about the structure of the data BUT ALSO about the structure of random data.

You yourself participated at the time in the dissemination of Mann's lies about the context of our article: Mann's false claim that we had requested an «Excel spreadsheet»; Mann's claim that the dataset to which I had been directed and which bore a timestamp of 2002 had been prepared especially for me; Mann's claim that we had not checked with him when we noticed problems with the data; Mann's claim that the dataset which he moved into a public folder in November 2003 had been online all the time (notice the CG2 email in which Mann accused me in September 2003 of trying to «break into» his data.

In the absence of supporting data, the default belief level for complex consistent (non-self-contradictory) propositions about the real world is infinitesimally above zero — they can not be said to be false, but nobody sensible would state that they are probably true without evidence.

The two bloggers appear to believe that journalists would run a story without actually reading the key relevant sections of the report, speak to the researcher about the complexities of the data, the background of the findings, the nature of the measurement of topics such as false balance, and the limits as to what can be said in terms of conclusions.

Simplistic without the grace of simplicity, generality - strewen without general applicability, relying on inference from dataset rather than mathematical analyses of data, following none of the usual rules of hypothesis testing nor verifiability, unvalidated, sometimes specious and occasionally jumping from the subject to throw in a slide about a red dot on a grid that could only be described as propaganda, unless one chooses to describe it as false, the «Pope Theory» is far from infallible.

Clearly they both tried to give a FALSE impression about the data.

Climatologist Dr. Ross McKitrick, one of the authors and an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, believes that the United Nations agency promoting the global temperature graph has made «false claims about the quality of its data.»

It might take an unbias scientist that is willing to focus on the data to frame what scientific evidence is and to clearly state what scientific evidence is showing is is false about evolution.

Critique 1) I have no idea about any cleansing, homogenisation or aggregation performed on this data prior to its presentation by Rutgers 2) Snow extent is only 1 part of the issue, thickness and mass would need to be considered for a full picture 3) I haven't taken care to provide exactly similar sample sizes, however the F and t methods do not require it 4) I haven't taken care to ensure that the same number of winter periods are present in each sample batch; this would increase the risk of a false positive and would have required further investigation if a weak indication of significance had been detected.

In this case, though Impact Team hacked and leaked data, AshleyMadison.com — nor its employees — made false statements of fact about users.

He also contends that Ranbaxy submitted false claims for a number of adulterated drugs to government healthcare programs for payment, as well as turned in false information when no tests were conducted while falsifying data about backdating tests.

Gizmodo reports that complaint shareholder Fan Yuan has accused the company of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about its handling of user data, and failing to disclose the ongoing situation has reduced the value of Facebook shares.

Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about the company's handling of user data — meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

To that end, articles and forum threads about OnePlus stealing data or credit card numbers (both are absolutely false) get passed around a lot more than the explanation or retractions to those articles.

Now, among several confusing patterns and false signals, the easiest thing is to assume is that the synchronization is about to be completed, backed on fundamental market data and political factors.

«We are also interested in asking you again about your claim that you «do not work with Facebook data, and -LSB-...] do not have Facebook data,» it continues, warning: «Giving false statements to a Select Committee is a very serious matter.»