Sentences with phrase «harvest massive amounts of data»

The company, which claims to harvest massive amounts of data to develop personality profiles and target voters» «unconscious psychological biases», has been swept up in an investigation by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

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The Windows operating system is now a service, but because it was given to many users as a free upgrade the ongoing costs will be derived from improving the user experience — meaning harvesting massive amounts of user data, some of which may never have been available before because that data originates at the level of the operating system.

For this reason, the non-consensual harvesting of massive amounts of data by a third party app — the very violation of law that led to the first FTC case against Facebook — lies at the center of the Cambridge Analytica investigation.