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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.

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.

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But what was surprising, at least to me, was how many of those app users consented to participate in the study: 48,968 of them — which included individuals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

As it currently stands, that means companies will have to re-obtain consent from all their existing users for all the data they are currently storing on them, no matter how old, according to several analysts and policy experts.

Facebook users in the United States are scheduled in coming weeks to see a series of new consent screens explaining how the company collects and uses personal data and asking permission for these uses.

Two former federal officials who crafted the landmark consent decree governing how Facebook handles user privacy say the company may have violated that decree when it shared information from tens of millions of users with a data analysis firm that later worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign.

«We have repeatedly asked Facebook about how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular whether data had been taken from people without their consent.

How to seek consent from Canadian users to collect, use and disclose their personal information in the digital age is the subject of ongoing debate.

Spain's AEPD said an investigation into how Facebook collects, stores and uses data for advertising purposes found it is doing so without obtaining adequate user consent.

Evidently finding a way to close down the legal liabilities and / or engineer consent from users to that degree of murky privacy intrusion — involving pools of aggregated personal data gathered by goodness knows who, how, where or when — was a bridge too far for the company's army of legal and policy staffers.

«The Committtee has repeatedly asked Facebook about how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular about whether data had been taken without their consent,» Collins writes in his letter.

That means Zuckerberg is now slated for two high - profile congressional hearings over how the company allowed an app to harvest extensive data on as many as 87 million users without their consent before said app traded notes with shady electoral firm Cambridge Analytica.

The data firm, which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign before the 2016 election, is now embroiled in an ongoing controversy about how it collected user data from the social networking giant without user consent.

Google disclosed how it will help publishers obtain tracking consent from users during a call last week with the IAB Europe GDPR Transparency and...

Facebook is spelling out in plain English how it collects and uses your data in rewritten versions of its Terms of Service and Data Use Policy, though it's not asking for new rights to collect and use your data or changing any of your old privacy settings.The public has seven days to comment on the changes (though Facebook doesn't promise to adapt or even respond to the feedback) before Facebook will ask all users to consent to the first set of new rules in three years.

Zuckerberg was grilled by lawmakers in Congress last week about how the company protects personal data after reports revealed that political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica collected the information of 87 million users without their consent.

Right now, his office is investigating how a private consulting firm got the records of 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.

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This regulations set rules for how and when we can collect personal data from users on our website, so is now required by law to be transparent about the persona data we collect, also be relevant and limited to what is necessary for the intended purpose of collection, but, specially, gain consent from individuals before using it.

For example, serious issues of informed consent arise when it comes to users understanding how the data collected by apps will be protected or used.

Facebook agreed to the settlement, known as a consent decree, in 2011, after allegedly deceiving users over how much personal information they were sharing.

«We have repeatedly asked Facebook about how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular whether data had been taken from people without their consent.

While Facebook didn't explain how many users had their data snagged by the «thisisyourdigitallife» app, the reports say it pulled private info from more than 50 million people even though they didn't know about it or consent — an act that at the time was allowed under Facebook's rules.

That means Zuckerberg is now slated for two high - profile congressional hearings over how the company allowed an app to harvest extensive data on as many as 87 million users without their consent before said app traded notes with shady electoral firm Cambridge Analytica.

The data firm, which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign before the 2016 election, is now embroiled in an ongoing controversy about how it collected user data from the social networking giant without user consent.

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Frankly it's a very risky PR strategy at a time when it really has become impossible for Facebook to deny quite how comfortable the company was, up until mid 2015, to hand over reams of personal information on Facebookers to third party users of its developer platform — without requiring these external entities gain individual level consent (friends could «consent» for all their friends!).

Lawmakers are hoping to pin down Zuckerberg on how his company allowed Cambridge Analytica, a controversial political data analytics firm based in the United Kingdom, to acquire the data of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent.

By May 25, tech companies operating in the European Union will have to adhere to a new set of data - collection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation, which is supposed to ensure that users are able to consent to the data that's being collected about them and that companies are clear about how that data is used.

The news comes one day after the Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it was investigating whether or not Facebook violated a 2011 consent decree regarding how the company handles user data.

Two former federal officials who crafted the landmark consent decree governing how Facebook handles user privacy say the company may have violated that decree when it shared information from tens of millions of users with a data analysis firm that later worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Mr Collins also criticised Facebook, saying his committee had «repeatedly» asked the firm about how companies accessed user data from the website and if information had been taken without users» consent.

«The committee has repeatedly asked Facebook about how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular about whether data had been taken without their consent,» wrote Damian Collins, chairman of the British committee.

Do users get to have consent over how their data is used?

Companies will have to declare up front how they will use the data, and users can withdraw consent at any time.

The Conservative chair of Westminster's digital, culture, media and sport committee, Damian Collins, wrote to Zuckerberg stating his belief that representatives of the social network skirted questions about how other firms acquired and retained user data from Facebook, and if it had been done without their consent.

«The Committtee has repeatedly asked Facebook about how companies acquire and hold on to user data from their site, and in particular about whether data had been taken without their consent,» Collins writes in his letter.

Facebook is spelling out in plain English how it collects and uses your data in rewritten versions of its Terms of Service and Data Use Policy, though it's not asking for new rights to collect and use your data or changing any of your old privacy settings.The public has seven days to comment on the changes (though Facebook doesn't promise to adapt or even respond to the feedback) before Facebook will ask all users to consent to the first set of new rules in three years.

I'm quite mystified how Facebook is going to reliably distinguish among EU and non-EU users, in order to build separate tiers of GDPR - compliant granular, revocable opt - in consent controls from another tier of opt - out consent controls.

Spain's AEPD said an investigation into how Facebook collects, stores and uses data for advertising purposes found it is doing so without obtaining adequate user consent.

When the EU law takes effect on May 25, Facebook will have to get users» explicit consent to collect data and be much more upfront about how it uses that data.

Meanwhile, apps that collect and transmit data unrelated to the main functionality will have to «prominently highlight how the user data will be used and have the user provide affirmative consent for such use.»

The revelation came in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica reports that revealed how Facebook app developers were able to gather data about Facebook users without their explicit consent.

Since Facebook actually asked the users for their consents, no matter how vague they are, to gather and store this data during the installation, it may actually be legal for Facebook to do so.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also been summoned to explain how data was taken without users» consent to a UK Parliamentary committee.