Sentences with phrase «friend data»

And in 2011 and 2012, following a legal complaint by European privacy campaigner and lawyer Max Schrems, Facebook was urged by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to tighten app permissions to avoid exactly the kind of friends data leakage that has now scaled into this major privacy scandal.

(In April of 2015, Facebook changed its policy, shutting down the API that shared friends data with third - party Facebook apps that they did not consent to sharing in the first place.)

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

This, though, is hardly a defense for Facebook: what is the company going to say, that it was exporting friend data for everyone, not just Trump?

David Vladeck, a former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said that because the practice of collecting friend data went well beyond Cambridge, «that in itself may be a serious problem, especially given the language of the consent decrees, which differentiates between users and others.»

(In April of 2015, Facebook changed its policy, shutting down the API that shared friends data with third - party Facebook apps that they did not consent to sharing in the first place.)

«Following the re-audit... one of the recommendations we made was in the area of the ability to use friends data through social media,» the DPC spokesman told us.

«Following the re-audit... one of the recommendations we made was in the area of the ability to use friends data through social media,» the DPC spokesman told us.

David Vladeck, a former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said that because the practice of collecting friend data went well beyond Cambridge, «that in itself may be a serious problem, especially given the language of the consent decrees, which differentiates between users and others.»

May 2014 — Facebook finally announces at its developer conference that it will be shutting down an API that let developers harvest users» friends data without their knowledge or consent, initially for new developer users — giving existing developers a year - long window to continue sucking this data

Facebook said it's taken steps to «limit developer access to detailed friend data», but Facebook's current default settings leave a lot of questions and a lot of data flying around.

«I knew 10 years ago that Facebook's API allowed an entity to gather friend data,» Hodder told me.

If I'd been working in a digital marketing agency where gamifying data requests was the norm, I can easily see how I might have yielded to the temptation of disguising a data grab with a recreational app, or scooping up friend data just because it was there.

Those APIs were updated in 2015 to remove the ability to see that kind of friend data, a move Stamos said was «controversial» with app developers at the time.

The tactic of collecting friend data, which has been featured prominently in the Cambridge Analytica coverage, was a well - known way of turning a handful of app users into a goldmine.

Facebook subsequently limited developer access to user data in 2014, turning off the Friends data API that Cambridge Analytica now infamously used to gather its data.

While this let developers build powerful, personalized products, the privacy concerns led Facebook to announce at F8 2014 that it would shut down the Friends data API in a year.

Along with the friends data API change, Facebook is now requiring all apps to use its new login system, which gives users more granular control over what data they give developers.

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

The spokesman said the DPC's recommendation formed the basis of the major platform change Facebook announced in 2014 — aka shutting down the Friends data API — albeit too late to prevent Cambridge Analytica from being able to harvest millions of profiles» worth of personal data via a survey app because Facebook only made the change gradually, finally closing the door in May 2015.

Evaluation: After students have added their family and friends data to their initial survey data, use the results of the completed survey and their final graphs to evaluate their understanding of the lesson objectives.

While this let developers build powerful, personalized products, the privacy concerns led Facebook to announce at F8 2014 that it would shut down the Friends data API in a year.

Along with the friends data API change, Facebook is now requiring all apps to use its new login system, which gives users more granular control over what data they give developers.

Those APIs were updated in 2015 to remove the ability to see that kind of friend data, a move Stamos said was «controversial» with app developers at the time.

Their quiz, called «thisisyourdigitallife,» offered $ 1 or $ 2, but required participants install the Facebook app, be American, and allow access to their friend data.

It is unclear why Facebook allowed the sharing of friend data.

The spokesman said the DPC's recommendation formed the basis of the major platform change Facebook announced in 2014 — aka shutting down the Friends data API — albeit too late to prevent Cambridge Analytica from being able to harvest millions of profiles» worth of personal data via a survey app because Facebook only made the change gradually, finally closing the door in May 2015.

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

«The issue of «friends» data being harvested when a Facebook user engaged with an app on Facebook was resolved by Facebook in May 2014 when access to friends data was restricted by a platform upgrade.

This followed a 2012 recommendation by DPC Ireland on foot of its re-audit of Facebook Ireland in relation to access to friends data.»

«We were all conscious that friend data was accessible,» says Sam Weston, a communications consultant who has been working in digital marketing and market research for nearly two decades.

If Facebook's generous access to friend data was known to many marketers and software developers, so was the tactic of disguising data grabs as fun apps, pages, or quizzes.

Because Vision Critical had its roots in the market research industry, where there are norms and codes of practice around how you handle respondent data, the idea of grabbing up friend data was utterly anathema: the company's founder dismissed it as a non-starter the very first time it came up, and at every stage in developing our own Facebook app, we disclosed that we were using it to gather data.

But that friend data grab was far from clear to fans of the page, even if the company's disclosure notice explained that the purpose of its app was to ensure that «brands can make better decisions about which content they should promote to you.»

Facebook says it dramatically limits the access apps have to friend data, preventing the type of data scoop Kogan and others were capable of.