Sentences with phrase «improper use of the data»

Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by...

Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook (FB.O) Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

The ICO has sought a warrant to obtain evidence from Cambridge Analytica as part of its investigation into Facebook and related parties for improper use of data; more stringent enforcement powers for the ICO, and potentially group litigation, may well follow.

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.

Executives met with staff for the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday for nearly two hours to discuss the allegations of improper use of data on 50 million users by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Authorities in Britain and the United States are investigating the alleged improper use of data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which worked on U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

The ramifications of improper use of the data could include identity theft, mortgage fraud and break - ins.

Not exact matches

New revelations from The New York Times and an admission from Facebook about the improper use of user data by Cambridge Analytica have once again thrown a spotlight on the technology industry's inadequate privacy protections.

Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook would be «investigating many apps, tens of thousands of apps, and if we find any suspicious activity, we're going to conduct a full audit of those apps to understand how they're using their data and if they're doing anything improper.

Facebook has been at the center of a hectic debate about Cambridge Analytica and the company's improper use of Facebook data.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Cambridge Analytica has repeatedly denied wrongdoing or improper use of Facebook data.

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.

Thus, if a Member is soliciting for options, then any pricing data that is used must refer to the historical premium value of the option that most closely resembles the type of option that is being marketed; it would be improper, for example, to cite historical price moves relating to at - the - money options when marketing out - of - the - money options.

(2) From the group of borrowers identified under paragraph (d)(1) of this section, the data manager identifies a sample that is large enough to derive an estimate, acceptable at a 95 percent confidence level with a plus or minus 5 percent confidence interval, for use in determining the number of borrowers who should be excluded from the calculation of the program cohort default rate due to improper loan servicing or collection.

We take steps to guard against unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, destruction, and accidental loss of personal data.

Then, instead of throwing out the data as hopelessly compromised and starting the experiment over with these factors corrected, you (a) do a study estimating how miscalibrated, how defective and how improperly located your instruments were and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the improper reading, (b) you do a study to estimate the effect of the external factors at the time you discover the problem and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» the effects of the external factors even though you have no idea what the effect of the external factor actually was for a given instrument at the time the data was recorded, because you only measured the effect years later and then at only some locations, (c) you «fill in» any missing data using data from other instruments and / or from other measurements by the same instrument, (d) you do another study to determine how best to deal with measurements from different instruments over different time periods and at different locations and apply adjustments to all past data to «correct» for differences between readings from different instruments over different time periods at different locations.

The climate community does not seem to exercise such care, and when their poor use of methods is pointed out they just ignore it and carry on (I could give scores of examples, from improper use of principal components, data mining, data snooping, spatial correlation, upside down data, single cause fallacy... and now uniform priors).

New revelations from The New York Times and an admission from Facebook about the improper use of user data by Cambridge Analytica have once again thrown a spotlight on the technology industry's inadequate privacy protections.

Facebook has been at the center of a hectic debate about Cambridge Analytica and the company's improper use of Facebook data.

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Cambridge Analytica has repeatedly denied wrongdoing or improper use of Facebook data.

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.»

Authorities in Britain and the United States are investigating the alleged improper use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, a U.K. - based political research firm.

Lawmakers in many countries may be focused on Cambridge Analytica's alleged improper use of Facebook data, but the social network's privacy problems go back more than a decade.

So what we announced there is, we're going to do a full investigation of every single app that had access to a large amount of people's data, before 2014 when we lost out the platform, and if we detect anything suspicious, we're basically going to send in a team to do a full forensic audit, to confirm that no Facebook data is being used in an improper way.

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.»

Chris Wylie, the whistle - blower who has alleged the knowingly improper use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, says The Social Network ™ has suspended his account.