Like some kind of Christmas miracle, the recent firmware update not only brought smoother scrolling and the ability to delete icons from the carousel, but
gives users permission to browse Google's library of Android apps.
Not exact matches
While the contents of an individual
user's Wickr account would be impossible to access without the account - holder's
permission, the business version
gives the company the ability see whatever information has not been automatically erased.
Mozilla said that beginning in August,
users of its Firefox web browser will have to
give permission to websites to run Flash on their browsers.
Internet Explorer
users can continue using Flash without needing to
give permission.
The issue at play is Facebook's original application programming interface, or API, which allows third - party developers to use Facebook's platform and access some
user data as long as those
users give permission.
To make matters worse,
users weren't alerted to the extra
permissions these apps were asking for, like those extended profile properties
giving away their friends» information.
Most recently, in October, it surfaced that Uber had special
permissions in its iPhone app that allowed it to access
users» personal information,
giving them the ability to potentially record a person's iPhone screen without their knowledge.
Reporting on Spangenberg's claims follows recent changes to Uber's app that effectively require
users to
give Uber
permission to track their location when the app is running in the background of a
user's phone, according to The Verge.
The new ePrivacy law will force Facebook to ask all its European
users to
give permission for each separate type of data being stored or shared by Facebook.
The settings
give users a chance to tell the social network they want it to stop using as much of their data as before — but the way the interface is designed makes it clear that Facebook wants people to
give it as many
permissions as possible.
He said that when GSR collect Facebook data, the terms detail the use that information collected will be put to and make clear to participants that they are
giving GSR full
permission to use the data and
user contribution for any purpose.
Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says the Cambridge Analytica incident is a textbook violation of the settlement Facebook reached with the FTC in 2011 which required that Facebook
users give permission before their data was shared beyond the privacy limits they set on Facebook.
Facebook said it
gave permission to University of Cambridge psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan to harvest information from
users who downloaded his app — «thisisyourdigitallife.»
Given the company's recent privacy issues involving Cambridge Analytica, a third - party data firm that got its hands on personal data for as many as 87 million Facebook
users without their
permission, we thought it might be helpful to take a closer look at how Facebook uses your data to make money.
Pathmatics says it gets its information on Facebook advertising from a panel of mobile
users in the U.S. who have
given it
permission to collect data on the ads in their News Feeds there.
Facebook is building a tool that will let its
users opt out of
giving the platform
permission to access their browsing history data, which the company...
Facebook is building a tool that will let its
users opt out of
giving the platform
permission to access their browsing history data, which the company uses to sell targeted ads.
On
users part, to avoid such kind of data breach being used to target you, you need to be a little more careful about the data
permissions you
give to your connected apps.
«What caught people off guard here is that, one, some 50 million
users found their data in the hands of someone that they did not
give permission to have it.
Over 270,000
users gave the app
permission to use their personal details for academic research.
Previously, he was co-director of Global Science Research, the company that obtained information on Facebook
users and their friends through
permissions they
gave a personality quiz app.
Though I suppose, in fairness, there's an argument to be made for saying that facebook posts should simply be off limits
given that facebook does sometimes change privacy settings without the
users»
permission.
The kicker in this case, according to the company's press release: «Once a
user gives permission, the application automatically posts updates to their profiles on their behalf during the course of the campaign.»
When
users opened the
given URL, they were sent to a
permissions page and hackers got control of their emails, contacts and potentially their personal information.
They're not
permission protected — the phone's
user doesn't have to
give a newly installed app
permission to access those sensors.
The researchers believe their work highlights a significant flaw in smart phone security, as using the sensors within the phones require no
permissions to be
given by the phone
user and are openly available for all apps to access.
Dr Bhasin said it would be advisable for mobile operating systems to restrict access to these six sensors in future, so that
users can actively choose to
give permissions only to trusted apps that need them.
Although
users give Facebook
permission to use their personal data when they sign up for the website, the DeepFace research paper makes no mention of the consent of the photos» owners.
One thing that we have elaborately built into our service is protections around privacy and security so that a
user's location is never shared and that other
users can not talk to you or communicate with you unless explicitly
given permission.
By registering for our service you
give us
permission to display your details on our website and in other electronic forms to other
users that might be interested.
I know many women enjoy Tinder over traditional dating sites because the only men who can contact them are the ones they've already
given «
permission» to since it requires both
users to swipe right.
A
user needs to
give you
permission before you can view their private albums.
While standard membership of this website is free of charge,
users would have to pay a premium subscription fee, which would
give them the
permission to access the extended feature set, thereby boosting their chances of finding an ideal match online.
Private photos feature
gives your dating site members the opportunity to hide some or all of the photos in their gallery and prompt other
users to request
permission to view the photos.
Only if the
user gives permission or access, others may view the information.
The key idea here is that
User Types are not just useful to
give your
users their own
permissions, but also as a method to create different sets of learners (like managers, engineers, assembly - liners, sellers, etc).
Lessons, Courses and Tests in the system are managed by the Instructors, so, in order to see the relevant options for creating and editing them, you need to login as one (or, alternatively, as a
user that has been
given the relevant
permissions).
Read Yale University's study on the effect of
user - generated Amazon reviews on sales then I'll show you how to social proof your book page with «strategic starter reviews» that
give browsers
permission to buy.
The security hole provides an easier way for
users to root their handsets, but in the process
gives apps full read - write
permissions.
Dear Dex, As more consumers have come to know, an authorized
user is someone who has been
given permission to use a card account by the primary cardholder.
Cathleen McCarthy: Authorized
users can't access rewards without special
permission — If you're an authorized
user on someone's credit card, the only way you can access the rewards points for the purchases you've made is if the primary account holder
gives you special access... (See Authorized
users and rewards)
Simply put: EA and DICE
gave the
user this build of the game or access to this build of the game with the express command that the
user would not distribute any aspect of the build nor release any information of it until
given permission.
As I said before, the FOI2009.zip file was zipped on a Unix system and shows that the files in the directory tree were
given read
permissions to all
users.
say i have a software that has AI (artificial intelligence) incorporated into it locally, and the
user gives the software some
permissions.
It a solution that will contact the
user with the lawyer dependent on lawyer rate and specialize and
user location to get most nearly lawyer in his location and
give the lawyer the
permission to finish his job freelancing.
What is unclear to me is if it is sufficient to tell the
user something like» If you are using this site you are agreeing with our cookies policy» or if it is required to have
user give specific
permission before any cookies (or any data to localstorage, sessionstorage, etc.) will be saved?
to gmail and
give other Clio
users permission to view your calendar entries.
Although the
user is afforded the ability to unblock Flash on any
given website, at least they are aware that Flash will not execute without their
permission.
If this policy was in place before, it would not have changed anything with regards to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which involves
permissions in prior versions of Facebook's API that
gave a shady app the ability to collect extensive data on up to 50 million
users without their consent.
As we know from the Cambridge Analytica debacle, however, plenty of Facebook
users give unknown developers
permission to do all kinds of crazy things without realizing the implications.