Sentences with phrase «information of friends of»

We're asking Facebook to change its policies to ensure third parties can't access the information of the friends of people who use an app.

(Facebook has also made some changes to prevent the gathering of detailed information of friends of users.)

«We're asking Facebook to change its policies to ensure third parties can't access the information of the friends of people who use an app.»

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When the company rolled out its app platform in 2007, the company explained to users that when they installed an app they'd be able to share not only their own information, but that of their friends as well, he said.

Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access some information about tens of millions of their friends.

One last interesting feature of the service is that users can share their accounts and passwords with friends or loved ones, which includes passing such information on in the event of death.

While you'll still see original posts from «friends» on this feed, a lot of information has shifted to the explore feed, including the pages that were shared by friends.

Members create their own shopping circle by connecting to their friends and choice of the site's industry insiders like Bobby Flay or Martha Stewart to create a personalized shopping experience and gain access to exclusive information, advice and product recommendations from people they trust.

The biggest innovation are its «Circles,» which allow users to tailor status updates and information to a varied group of contacts such as friends, co-workers and family.

Email marketing has potential as part of your online marketing campaign, but you need to use the strategies outlined above to ensure that recipients will click through to your website and feel compelled to share information with their friends and family members.

They have a small group of friends who share brilliant ideas and may co-invest or make strategic introductions,» Povlitz has witnessed.She says they understand that people and information have as much value as money, and that real wealth involves the right combination and proper use of each.

Before you leave your current employer, collect the personal contact information of trusted colleagues and friends.

I have a broad set of informal friends and mentors out there, and I think that's one of the most critical things: to try to mine good information from good people.

Only 270,000 people downloaded the app, but because of Facebook's privacy settings at the time, people who were friends with those who downloaded the app may have had some of their personal information shared.

If it's a friend of a friend of a neighbor down the block, thus far down the information chain, there is no way of knowing if the person is telling the truth or might be motivated to lie for some reason.

Our likes, dislikes, and pictures of places, friends and pets have all been fodder for an enormous and often intrusive information apparatus.

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

In the spring of 2013, research conducted by psychologists at Cambridge University blew the lid off how this easily accessible digital record of your behaviour can be used (ultimately without your consent) to extract sensitive personal information about you — the kind of information that you might not even share with your closest friends.

Information that's useful, interesting or entertaining to friends, family and colleagues is the order of the day.

We're consuming more information faster than ever before, and mobile video is a big part of that, as is live video experiences with friends, influencers, and celebrities.

«They may not share information [about their estate], because they think it might negatively impact their child's work ethic or because of confidentiality — if they think their children might talk about it with their friends or other family members,» said Connie Torabian, senior vice president and market trust director for U.S. Trust, who works exclusively with high - net - worth clients.

These include «keeping private information private,» limiting privacy settings to friends and restricting the amount of information, pictures and videos that gets shared and with whom it gets shared, and being on the lookout for requests for personal information that comes from third parties.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able to infer when you bought a gift from their catalog for a friend who lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability) to use that information to build a profile of your friend's interests.

Four of the seven memos are considered classified and he gave four to a friend to leak the information to the media.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

And in addition to telling time, users can also use Apple Watch to respond to messages, read stock information and communicate with friends by sending sketches, audio messages and even recordings of one's own heartbeat.

Facebook apparently needs this information to enhance the algorithm in charge of recommending which friends to add.

He or she used this information to approach people I knew in the cryptocurrency space with a story that was, arguably, quite ludicrous: the hospital would pull the plug on my Dad if they didn't get payment of a bill and that I, in my anguish, needed to borrow and sell 10 bitcoins immediately and would pay the friend back 15 the next morning.

Now, more than ever before, it's clear that any of us with a Facebook profile has surrendered an unknowable quantity of information about our lives, our interests, our locations, our aspirations — and about our friends, our friends» interests, our friends» locations, and our friends» aspirations.

Only 270,000 some people who downloaded the app and participated in the survey, but at the time, Facebook allowed third parties to collect information around friends of friends.

Records reviewed by The Times show that roughly 300,000 people took the survey, but because of the access to friends» information allowed at the time, Facebook said that as many as 87 million users could have been affected.

Facebook was hit with one of its biggest scandals ever when multiple outlets reported that a researcher's app pulled personal information about 270,000 users and 50 million of their friends, then passed that data to Cambridge Analytica.

President Trump regularly accuses former FBI Director James B. Comey of leaking classified information when — through a friend — he passed a memo to...

A pair of blockbuster reports from the New York Times and the UK's Observer released Saturday explained the scope of the problem: Cambridge Analytica collected the data not only of the approximately 270,000 users who agreed to take Kogan's personality quiz but also their friends, thus harvesting information on tens of millions of people without their knowledge or permission.

This week the New York Times and The Observer of London reported that a researcher's app had pulled personal information on about 270,000 Facebook users and 50 million of their friends back in 2015, and then passed that data haul to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebook's policies.

Zuckerberg explained that the roots of the Cambridge Analytica data access date back to 2007, when Facebook launched a platform «with the vision that more apps should be social» that would allow users to log into apps and share who their friends were and their information.

The data was acquired via a third - party app, and the company behind the app harvested information not just from the users of that app but also from the Facebook friends of users.

There are many applications that do not need to access the users» friends personal data (e.g. games, quizzes, apps that only post things on the user's page) but Facebook Ireland does not offer a more limited level of access than «all the basic information of all friends».

«It misses the info Facebook uses for auto - completing searches; it misses much of the information they use for suggesting friends; and I find it hard to believe that it contains the full profiling information.»

Since the data misuse scandal blew up last month, Facebook has said it is conducting a full audit of any apps which had access to «a large amount» of information before it changed app permissions on its platform in mid 2015 to prevent developers from being able to suck out data on Facebook users» friends.

Collecting user data before 2015 was actually something the company encouraged, under the banner of increased utility for Facebook users — so that calendars could bring in information about the birthdays of friends, for instance.

Yet, we got information from a friend of our site that are a fraud!

Knowledge of Where Customers Spend Time: Once you know the background of each of your personas, this insight will help you gain a better understanding of where your customers spend their time online, where they go to get their information, and which social networks they typically use to connect with family, friends, and co-workers.

If you use Gboard you should know you are handing the adtech giant another firehose of your private information — though it claims that only search queries and «usage statistics» are sent by Gboard to Google (The privacy policy further specifies: «Anything you type other than your searches, like passwords or chats with friends, isn't sent.

While most brick - and - mortar retailers will only have access to credit card information, or perhaps some personal information through consumer loyalty programs, analysis of Amazon's privacy policy shows that the company collects information on shipping recipients, Internet protocol (IP) addresses of customers, personal information in a user's profile and even the e-mail addresses of friends.

Kogan's app also provided access to «more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,» Grewal wrote — aka friends of friends — which allowed Cambridge to build profiles for millions of potential voters.

«He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours, who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers,» Pompeo said on C - SPAN on Feb. 11.

Weisberg attempted to corroborate the story, and while Daniels did not share the contact information of some relevant witnesses (to wit, «Trump's longtime personal assistant Rhona Graff and his bodyguard Keith Schiller»), he was able to speak with three friends who backed her up.

Shi described to me how personal banking and credit information «is being used as part of the anti-corruption campaign to identify the networks of corrupt officials», who in China often hide their graft — whether it's property or cash — by putting it in the names of friends or family.

Facebook has declared some types of information, including users» name and profile picture, «publicly available» — and has made all of that information available to each user's friends» apps as well.