In wave 1 these questions are primarily suggested by the community of
academic users.
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For
an academic user or a writer who wants to save a few trees in their edits, that touch screen is worth the money.
One would think that West would have the technology in place to detect suspected password sharing and Hodnicki's point, echoed by Betsy McKenzie, director of the Suffolk University Law School Library, is that library and
academic users are a key «market» for this kind of technology.
Part of the marketing initiative was to conduct «roadshows,» where the Thomson Reuters folks could get a bunch of lawyers and / or
academic users in a room and demonstrate why their new product was the proverbial greatest thing since sliced bread.
Not exact matches
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has also opened an investigation into Facebook and its role in the siphoning of 50 million
users» data by an
academic who then sold the information to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica without those
users» knowledge.
More recently, he attended two congressional hearings during which he fielded lawmakers questions about how Facebook let an
academic obtain
user data and then sell it to the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook
users» data for
academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.
While journalists and
academics propose Facebook make direct attempts at curbing the spread of false headlines, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg are concerned about the influence of the company, which has nearly two billion
users.
Companies need to have a diverse human pool with different
academic backgrounds to come together and decide what a platform is really about and how a company wants it to serve
users.
Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook
users from quizzes that were supposed to be for
academic research.
But The Times, which has viewed a set of raw data from the profiles that Cambridge Analytica paid an
academic researcher to obtain, contacted nearly two dozen affected Facebook
users in recent weeks.
Facebook has said that people who took the quiz were told that their data would be used only for
academic purposes, claiming that it and its
users were misled by Cambridge Analytica and the researcher it hired, Aleksandr Kogan, a 28 - year - old Russian - American
academic.
The app claimed to be collecting data for
academic research, and
users were not aware of its true purpose.
These articles revealed how Cambridge Analytica obtained access to the personal details and lifestyle preferences of over 50 million
users by using a team of
academics to gather the data under the guise of scientific research [NY Times, The Guardian].
Twitter said it sold data to the Cambridge University
academic who had separately shared
user data he gleaned from Facebook with third parties including Cambridge Analytica.
An
academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook
users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for
academic use.
Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook
users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an
academic working with CA.
The newspaper reported that the Ted Cruz campaign had paid UK
academics to gather psychological profiles about the US electorate using «a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook
users built with an online survey».
One major feature that would distinguish the business practices of Amazon's «streaming data marketplace» from those of actors such as Facebook: The social media giant, while admitting that it has allowed direct access to
user data for
academic purposes, claims to prohibit the sale of these data «to any ad network, data broker or other advertising or monetization - related service.»
The researcher hired by Cambridge Analytica, Alexandr Kogan, told Facebook and his app's
users that he was collecting information for
academic purposes, not for a political data firm owned by a wealthy conservative.
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University
academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online
user data, says he's considering suing Facebook.
The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million
user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for
academic purposes, not political ones.
It introduces each of the eight stakeholders in the ecosystem: innovators, venture capitalists, banks and financial services, developers,
academics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government bodies, and
users or citizens.
Computing Facilities for
academic and administrative
users at the Haskayne School of Business are provided and maintained by the school's Information Technology Support (ITS) group.
The Bank has required the securitisation data to be made available to permitted data
users (such as those who intend to use the data for investment, professional or
academic research).
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.
The move comes in the wake of a Guardian and Observer investigation which alleged that in 2013 that
academic Dr Aleksandr Kogan used a quiz app to harvest the data of 50 million
users, before passing it on to data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
From August to October of this year, Micro Focus held an essay contest for our customers and
users in
academic settings.
What Facebook says: Facebook says an
academic researcher obtained the
user data legitimately (via an app that offered innocuous - seeming «personality tests») but misused it when he passed it to the data firm.
Though the
users were assured that this information was gathered for
academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.
«Facebook's defense that Cambridge Analytica harvesting of FB
user data from millions is not technically a «breach» is a more profound & damning statement of what's wrong with Facebook's business model than a «breach,»» said University of North Carolina
academic Zeynep Tufekci, who is influential on social media topics, on Twitter.
The Office of External Affairs (OEA) is the Commission's liaison with the domestic and foreign news media, producer and market
user groups, educational and
academic groups and institutions, and the general public.
Over 270,000
users gave the app permission to use their personal details for
academic research.
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Both newspapers ran stories Sunday outlining how Cambridge
academic Aleksander Kogan made an app called «thisisyourdigitallife» that prompted
users to answer questions for a psychological profile.
According to Facebook, Cambridge
academic Dr. Aleksandr Kogan was able to acquire this data by creating an app, called «thisisyourdigitallife» that prompted
users to answer questions for a psychological profile.
Cambridge
academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which used psychological tests to gather data on
users.
All he divulged to Facebook, and to
users in fine print, was that he was collecting information for
academic purposes, the social network said.
The Cambridge
academic has become a central figure in the debate over whether the personal information of millions of Facebook
users was used in US elections without their consent.
Cambridge Analytica also enlisted Russian - American
academic Aleksandr Kogan to mine the private Facebook
user data that is the subject of the ongoing scandal.
They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the review involve the whole
academic community The process was overseen by a Steering Group composed of prominent UK
academics,
users of Human Geography research and funders.
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.
An
academic who created an app that harvested data from 50m Facebook
users says Cambridge Analytica and the social media firm have made him a «scapegoat».
On Friday, the company announced that it had suspended Cambridge Analytica, its parent firm Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), Wylie (who left the company in late 2014), and the Russian - American
academic Aleksandr Kogan, who originally collected the data using a Facebook app that asked
users to complete a personality test - like survey.
He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its
users as a project gathering for
academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not
academic, purposes.
The harvested
user information, collected under the guise of
academic research, included the private social media activity of more than 50 million people.
All those
academic, corporate, and military
users belonged to large, well - structured organizations, so the hooks were immediately available to create a nonanonymous design.
Free access is available to National Research Council scientists and
academic / not - for - profit
users associated with a university, hospital, or government department.