A little -
known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
A little -
known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
Not exact matches
We
know that GDPR will cause a fundamental shift in the way
companies collect, manage, and utilize the customer
data they collect.
The clients I
know who have succeeded on the platform usually devote a significant amount of time and resources to properly listing their products, understanding the nuances of the
company's fulfillment and other services, participating in campaigns that have questionable profitability, analyzing reams of
data that the service spits out in order to make adjustments to its prices and branding and working hard to live up to Amazon's stringent customer service guidelines.
The SEC said Tuesday that Altaba's payment will settle allegations that the
company, when it was
known as Yahoo, failed to disclose to investors its knowledge of the huge 2014
data breach that exposed the personal
data of over 500 million users.
Executives at the
company said they do not expect to be adversely impacted by the onset of the
data privacy regime
known as GDPR in Europe either.
Managers and owners should
know what critical
data needs to be protected, where the
data resides within the
company, and restrict access to only those employees who have need of the
data and have also received training in
data and information security.
The software
company solves a problem with big
data: It's useless unless you
know how to use it.
Although
data compiled by the British
company best
known for transporting banknotes in armoured vans shows people are increasingly paying for anything from their daily coffee to online bargains with cards and mobiles, Chief Executive Ashley Almanza said G4S is defying its own expectations.
Once you collect such
data and
know where your valuable sources of
data lie, determine which metrics matter to your
company.
The trouble is that many of these
companies got distracted, you
know, starting up a
company, so the
data and analytics projects were back - burnered, and then allowed to go cold.
Clearly the
data obsessed
company knows the dismal statistics on traditional training, so when it wanted to nudge their managers to provide more psychological safety for their teams, they didn't call in an expert for a seminar or send everyone to an expensive but useless class.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The
company formerly
known as Yahoo is paying a $ 35 million fine to resolve federal regulators» charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the biggest
data breaches in internet history.
We've been running along fine for the past decade sharing
data and assuming the
companies that process that
data know how to manage it.
Palantir can sift through photos, videos and other
data to watch for criminal activity, and is
known today as one of the most secretive successful
companies in the Valley.
The most important
company in tech is helping users connect with each other all over the world; now we
know they are also helping themselves to our
data and not protecting it.
Smart
companies not only have access to loads of pertinent
data — they
know how to organize it.
Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has continued the
company's apology tour over its
data scandal, acknowledging that Facebook
knew Cambridge Analytica had mishandled users»
data two and a half years ago but saying the
company failed to follow up when the consulting firm said the
data had been deleted.
NEW YORK — An audit of Facebook's privacy practices for the Federal Trade Commission found no problems even though the
company knew at the time that a
data - mining firm improperly obtained private
data from millions of users — raising questions about the usefulness of such audits.
And the
data demonstrates the payoff of a great workplace culture for everyone,
no matter who they are or what they do for the
company.
Such a scenario would lead to the creation of a swath of
companies known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), who effectively buy discounted minutes and
data from network owners, then resell them under their own banner.
«Our platform allows
companies to react to changing conditions real - time, learn about their fleet through
data analytics, and improve their end - customer experience by letting them
know exactly when they're getting there.»
Every marketer will have access to every customer they are touching and targeting and every consumer will have trust because they will be able to click a Jahia - powered website privacy link to see what everyone in the
company knows about you, and you can say what
data you want anonymized, deleted and even where the
data should be stored.
Almost every day there's a new
data breach in the news involving a well -
known company and quite often fresh rules for protecting personal information are circulated.
Late Friday, Reuters reported that Verizon was weighing a sale of enterprise assets, including what used to be
known as MCI and Terremark, a
data center - and - cloud
company Verizon bought 5 years ago to boost its presence in cloud computing.
In reality, though, it's hard to
know just what the real effect of Uber on drunk driving has been because, for all the
company's claims on the matter, the available
data remains a bit scant.
Once you receive the results, circulate the
data widely throughout the
company to make sure everyone
knows what's on customers» minds.
Despite reams of Big
Data and access to all sorts of third party research, the disconnect between what a
company believes it
knows about its customers and the reality as told by its actual customers is staggering.
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.
DeepMind said Monday that it «underestimated the complexity» of the United Kingdom's National Health Service «and of the rules around patient
data, as well as the potential fears about a well -
known tech
company working in health.»
With EMC, for example, Elliott had spent months getting to
know the
data storage
company, interviewing some 700 of its customers before launching a campaign urging it to pursue M&A opportunities.
In November, BuzzFeed reported that an Uber executive, Emil Michael, had suggested using the
company's customer
data to dig up dirt on long - time tech reporter, Sarah Lacy, who is
known for being critical of the startup.
Perhaps the classic and best -
known example of
companies putting
data to work is Apple's iTunes platform.
Now that people
know just how much of their personal
data Facebook has, the last thing the
company can afford is for people to view the social network giant as being irresponsible.
While it is more widely
known that machine learning is utilized as a way to provide recommendations or suggestions on platforms such as Pandora and Spotify and with ecommerce
companies such as Amazon and eBay, many may not
know that machine learning and
data mining are also employed within businesses to provide intelligent business insights via utilizing
data and employing predictive analytics.
In Europe, Facebook and other tech giants like Google are bracing for tough new
data privacy rules that take effect May 25 and will apply to any
company that collects
data on EU residents,
no matter where it is based.
The
company said it was «building a way» for people to
know if their
data was accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological - profiling quiz app that researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people to take part in.
He previously tried to talk to his 13 - year - old daughter about
data privacy and social media — even providing examples of how much the tech
companies know about people and what they can do with that information.
Wylie previously told the committee he thought Kogan had run into problems with the rate at which the GSR App was able to pull
data off Facebook's platform — and had contacted engineers at the
company at the time (though Wylie also caveated his evidence by saying he did not
know whether what he'd been told was true).
A
company blog post later elaborated, «Everyone —
no matter where they live — will be asked to review important information about how Facebook uses
data and make choices about their privacy on Facebook.»
Additionally, the SEC requires oil and gas
companies, in filings made with the SEC, to disclose proved reserves, which are those quantities of oil and gas, which, by analysis of geoscience and engineering
data, can be estimated with reasonable certainty to be economically producible — from a given date forward, from
known reservoirs, under existing economic conditions, operating methods, and governmental regulations.
The
company no longer lets app developers take your friends»
data without their permission.
Companies can
no longer hide behind convoluted and often ignored user agreements, but must obtain consent with a full understanding of the user where their
data may go.
No matter what the
company says, there's a clear benefit to collecting as much
data on its users as possible, and many users allow it.
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.
Wylie said that both Bannon and Rebekah Mercer, whose father, Robert Mercer, financed the
company, participated in conference calls in 2014 in which plans to collect Facebook
data were discussed, although Wylie acknowledged that it was not clear they
knew the details of how the collection took place.
European regulators and courts are equipped to support people who wish to protect their own
data, or to
know how it is used by
companies or politicians that seek to influence them.
It is unclear whether Bannon
knew how Cambridge Analytica was obtaining the
data, which allegedly was collected through an app that was portrayed as a tool for psychological research but was then transferred to the
company.
For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme
known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the
company information about your reading habits and preferences,
data the
company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.
These days, whenever a well -
known public
company suffers a major
data breach, bulletins and news alerts circulate quickly among most boards and the governance community.