Sentences with phrase «gained access to the private information»

News that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users has weighed not only on the shares of Facebook but on Alphabet as well.

Privacy Clearinghouse, which tracks data breaches, reported that from 2005 - 2011, prior to the FERPA changes, there were almost 10,000 breaches of student data, including: hackers gaining access to private information, a school district's accidental online posting of personal student data, and student records being found in a trash bin.

Then it emerged that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users.

Zuckerberg's post came following public outcry in response to a report last weekend from The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by the Trump campaign, gained access to private information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their profiles, locations and what they like.

Even as it issues full - page apologies in print newspapers promising ritualistically «to do better,» Facebook and its allies have minimized the importance of the seismic revelation that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on behalf of the Trump campaign in 2016, had gained access to the private information of about 50 million Facebook users.

CompTIA Research Study At Stake: Legislation That Could Affect Whether Hackers or Unscrupulous Repair Shops Gain Access to Private Information without Device Owner's Knowledge or Consent DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sept..

Not exact matches

If the password is leaked, a scammer will have access to all of your private information including name, password and email address, which means they can gain access to other websites.

You shall not Post Content that: (1) infringes any proprietary rights of any third party; (2) violates any law or regulation; (3) is defamatory or trade libelous; (4) is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, intimidating, profane, pornographic, hateful, racially, ethnically or sexually discriminatory or otherwise objectionable in any way or that otherwise violates any right of another; (5) encourages conduct that would violate any conduct prohibited by this Agreement; (6) restricts or inhibits any other user from using the Website; (7) is or amounts to an unsolicited advertisement, promotion, or other form of solicitation; (8) impersonates any person or entity or that directly or indirectly attempts to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Website or any computer, software, or data of any person, organization or entity that uses or accesses the Website; (9) provides or create links to external sites that violate the Agreement; (10) is intended to harm, exploit, solicit, or collect personally identifiable information of, any individual under the age of 18 («Minor») in any way; (11) invades anyone's privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store, or publish private or personally identifiable information without their foreknowledge and willing consent or distributes or contains viruses or any other technologies that may harm the Website or any of its users; (12) is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third - party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from the rightful owner to post the material and to grant Non-GMO Project all of the license rights granted herein; and / or (13) contains or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work.

The congressman said Facebook made a big mistake in turning a blind eye to privacy issues, particularly regarding British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica which gained access to 50 million users» private information without their knowledge.

(i.e. using subterfuge and pretence to gain access to private or confidential information).

Today, with all the screening and other safety features that are found on the internet, you may not have as many concerns about an unwanted person gaining access to your personal and private information.

«Vishing» is facilitated by Voice Over Internet Phone (VoIP) to gain access to your private personal and financial information.

I test various private information exchange theories in the context of my data and determine that the investors in my sample share ideas to receive constructive feedback, gain access to a broader set of profitable ideas, and attract additional arbitragers to their asset market.

Users accessing this website are authorised to view all of its information and contents and also to download and make private copies of such contents in their computers, provided the copied elements are exclusively for the user's personal use and they are not subsequently assigned or transferred to third parties, nor installed in any server connected directly or indirectly to internet or to a local network in such a way that third parties can gain access to the aforementioned information through means other than the website itself.

For example, we collect (a) e-mail addresses when you register to gain access to the Press Releases portion of this Web Site; and (b) log - in information when you access the Private Viewing area of the Web Site.

The fund is designed to help scientists like Professor Michael Mann cope with the legal fees that stack up in fighting attempts by climate - skeptic groups to gain access to private emails and other correspondence through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests at their public universities.

Third parties may wish to store information on the equipment of a user, or gain access to information already stored, for a number of purposes, ranging from the legitimate (such as certain types of cookies) to those involving unwarranted intrusion into the private sphere (such as spy ware or viruses).

Private plaintiffs generally may not gain access to the entirety of the government's files, but might gain access to some materials in the government's files through subpoenas to the company, Freedom of Information Act requests, and access to public dockets in ongoing criminal cases.

Facebook has also stated that Kogan gained access to user's private information «through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time.»

Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm with ties to President Trump's 2016 campaign, suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, on Tuesday, amid the furor over the access it gained to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users.

The attacker is manipulating bugs in software to gain access and gather private information, perhaps with a keylogger they install.

(Black Hat) Hackers have been able to access private and government databases to gain access to personal information and use this information for their own gain.

Fooled into believing they had come to the right place, victims then entered private information that allowed the hackers to gain access to their actual wallets and take their virtual currency.

Also important, fingerprint records can activate either normal or guest mode, which means while your fingerprint can provide access to private folders, applications, or payment information, you can still lend your phone to someone else and not worry about them gaining access to your stash of, um, «personal files.»

They gain access to all the private and personal information people give you in the process of a transaction.

Bill McMullin, can't get around that provincial agreement instead he wants the Competition Bureau to force Ontario's real estate boards to relinquish all the sold data which is not yet even on registry and upheld as private information and the best way it seems to do so is by by - passing buyer, seller and brokerage approval because he can not, unlike in NS, gain access to the land registry database.