Sentences with phrase «for academic users»

For an academic user or a writer who wants to save a few trees in their edits, that touch screen is worth the money.

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In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook users» data for academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

Facebook has said that people who took the quiz were told that their data would be used only for academic purposes, claiming that it and its users were misled by Cambridge Analytica and the researcher it hired, Aleksandr Kogan, a 28 - year - old Russian - American academic.

The app claimed to be collecting data for academic research, and users were not aware of its true purpose.

An academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for academic use.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

One major feature that would distinguish the business practices of Amazon's «streaming data marketplace» from those of actors such as Facebook: The social media giant, while admitting that it has allowed direct access to user data for academic purposes, claims to prohibit the sale of these data «to any ad network, data broker or other advertising or monetization - related service.»

The researcher hired by Cambridge Analytica, Alexandr Kogan, told Facebook and his app's users that he was collecting information for academic purposes, not for a political data firm owned by a wealthy conservative.

The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for academic purposes, not political ones.

Computing Facilities for academic and administrative users at the Haskayne School of Business are provided and maintained by the school's Information Technology Support (ITS) group.

The Bank has required the securitisation data to be made available to permitted data users (such as those who intend to use the data for investment, professional or academic research).

But Kogan's academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use data for commercial and political ends.

From August to October of this year, Micro Focus held an essay contest for our customers and users in academic settings.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

Over 270,000 users gave the app permission to use their personal details for academic research.

On June 13, 2007, The Family Online Safety Institute, along with Telmex and Family & Society, will bring together leaders in government, the online industry, academics and non-profit organizations in the search for a solution to online safety for all Internet users in Mexico.

A user - friendly sociological overview of the philosophy and practice of doulas in the U.S., illuminated by real - life stories, for a wide audience ranging from current and aspiring birth professionals, reproductive scholars and students in a variety of academic disciplines as well as a unique resource for pregnant women contemplating childbirth.

Both newspapers ran stories Sunday outlining how Cambridge academic Aleksander Kogan made an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» that prompted users to answer questions for a psychological profile.

According to Facebook, Cambridge academic Dr. Aleksandr Kogan was able to acquire this data by creating an app, called «thisisyourdigitallife» that prompted users to answer questions for a psychological profile.

All he divulged to Facebook, and to users in fine print, was that he was collecting information for academic purposes, the social network said.

But Kogan's academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use data for commercial and political ends.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

Free access is available to National Research Council scientists and academic / not - for - profit users associated with a university, hospital, or government department.

It made for a juicy academic scandal that in the end hurt him more than anyone else, but the consequences of the internet's ability to cloak users» identities aren't always so confined.

Virginia Space aims to provide safe, reliable, and responsive space access at competitive prices and is proud to offer full - service launch facilities for commercial, government, scientific and academic users both foreign and domestic.

The Molecular Foundry is a Department of Energy user facility for academic, national laboratory and industrial researchers.

Self - reported lifetime use, motives, socio - demographic and academic features for over the counter (OTC), medically prescribed (MPP), and illicit (IP) psychostimulant users were reported.

Let's have a look at a free online service that allows 250,000 users worldwide to create timelines of events covering over 30,000 topics suitable for business and academic presentations.

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

Feedback from building users The POE analysis followed a rigorous scientific framework for capturing evidence and was reviewed by leading academics and industry experts, but we also wanted to find out whether these issues were felt on the ground by the people using school buildings on a daily basis.

The app was designed to enable users to measure the listening and speaking skills of young learners, recognising the significance of the oral tradition in Indigenous cultures, and oral language as the foundation for the development of literacy skills and a strong indicator of later reading, writing and overall academic achievement.

We've seen such a great response to our prior Academic Sprints that for the 2016 - 17 school year, we've decided to challenge all Study Island users to compete for Blue Ribbons in our first ever year - long contest!

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

Used by many of the country's top public, K - 12 school and academic libraries, Axis 360 offers a fully accessible platform for library users to find, check out and read digital titles on their phones, tablets and ereader devices.

i'd predict that once the access and compatibility issues have been simplified for academic kindle users, anyone who has spent their life printing pdf's or html articles will heave the enormous, relieved sigh of the newly unburdened when they realize they no longer have to stand by the printer hoping that the paper and toner hold out «for just these last few pages».

Not a big surprise for everyone I guess... What would be interesting to find in a review comparing the ipad and the kindle DX is how user friendly both devices are when one would like to read academic articles for example or when one wants to annotate a text (annotations are easy write down, easy to retrieve on a computer...) Is it easy to find and retrieve books with ibooks or with the kindle software?

Early attempts at social reading focused on the sharing of insight and ideas about the text, something that was perfect for the academic market since it allowed students and professors to make comments within a user's book, much like margin notes.

Academic Complete was recently named Library Journal «s «Best E-Book Database,» among other accolades and awards, and serves its member libraries and institutions by offering a catalog of more than 80,000 titles which are available for unlimited access by multiple users simultaneously through ebrary's subscription model.

Anyway, for academic / scientific work the size is perfect, but annotation tools must be polished to make the user experience shine.

This library partnership meets the need for digital content from libraries whose users and patrons are still clamoring for relevant academic digital content.

This may become especially important for the renting of academic texts, which can be needed for an entire semester, whereas a user can opt to rent a novel for as little as five days.

VideoBlocks fully - indexed content libraries save end users time in finding the right content for their digital projects while providing peace of mind that VideoBlocks» content can be ethically incorporated in any academic, personal, and commercial use.

I think for academic texts where literally all of the users need to be on the same page, it can be useful.

Despite the user - friendly devices and what they can offer from the e-book retailers, when it comes to the academic market, Amazon and B&N would do well to look at what the vendors and aggregators are doing if they wish to streamline their systems to work more closely in tandem with the systems already in place for libraries.

According to reporting by CNBC, Cubeyou collected data from Facebook users through personality quizzes «for non-profit academic research» developed with Cambridge University, and then sold the data to advertisers.

It seems to me that Cooks focus has been on «educating / supporting» providing tools for active climate scientists to understand and apply, and more broadly academic students and those engaged in the topic, including media journos PR folks etc., and for people like you and other regular users of websites like RC here.

IMO, academic researchers funded by NOAA or whoever is not the best model for matching useful forecast information to user needs.

One would think that West would have the technology in place to detect suspected password sharing and Hodnicki's point, echoed by Betsy McKenzie, director of the Suffolk University Law School Library, is that library and academic users are a key «market» for this kind of technology.

The more users you have, the less the monthly fee, and pricing is different for academic institutions than for profit - making enterprises.