Sentences with phrase «improper sharing of data»

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Facebook, still reeling from a scandal concerning the improper sharing of tens of millions of its users» data, now wants to get even more intimately involved in your life.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by President Donald Trump's 2016 US election campaign, has hurt the shares of the world's biggest social network and prompted multiple official investigations in the United States and Europe.

The proposed class action would represent people who bought Facebook shares from Feb. 3, 2017, when Facebook filed its annual report and cited security breaches and improper access to user data, through March 19 of this year, two days after a New York Times report revealed how data from Cambridge Analytica obtained through Facebook were used without «proper disclosures or permission.»

Is this sort of improper data sharing an isolated incident or is this just part of a systemic information - control problem inside Facebook?

Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said that if she could relive this week over again — a week in which the social network has become engulfed in controversy over improper sharing of personal data from 50 million users — she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg would have spoken up a lot sooner.

The proposed class action would represent people who bought shares of Facebook from Feb. 3, 2017, when Facebook filed its annual report and cited security breaches and improper access to user data, through March 19, two days after a New York Times report revealed how data from Cambridge Analytica obtained through Facebook was used without «proper disclosures or permission.»

The European Union says that Facebook has told it that up to 2.7 million people in the 28 - nation bloc may have been victim of improper data sharing involving political data - mining firm Cambridge Analytica.