Sentences with phrase «more access to user data»

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For Facebook users who haven't used an app in three months or more, Zuckerberg says the app developers will no longer have access to their data.

At the time, laxer privacy settings across Facebook meant Kogan had access to data from tens of millions more users after their friends had installed the app.

According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) research released on September 12, «by 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices.»

Aiming to placate concerned users and, more directly, potential regulators, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be limiting developer access to user data.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

It was the beginning of more targeted advertising, and the changes enabled third - party sites to access Facebook user data — unless, of course, users sifted through the site's complex new privacy settings and blocked third - party sites from accessing their data.

While I tend to think of myself as a very careful Facebook user, I was stunned today to realize that I'd allowed more than 130 third - party apps to have access to at least some of my data.

Facebook is facing questions of its data handling following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

The social media giant is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

This has made already uncertain internet users even more hesitant to share their personal data with you — like their email and contact information or even logging onto your website by allowing you to access their information on their social media profile.

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.

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».

News that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users has weighed not only on the shares of Facebook but on Alphabet as well.

The CEO vowed to police the platform more vigorously, and audit any developer that may have gotten access to user data.

The probes follow a weekend of turmoil for Facebook after reports that Cambridge Analytica gained access to the data of more than 50 million users.

These included changes to many of the Facebook APIs with regard to access to user data and how the data is used, the removal of Partner Categories in Advertising targeting options and more.

The probes follow a weekend of turmoil for Facebook after reports that Cambridge Analytica gained access to the data of more than 50 million users.

The event comes more than a month after news broke that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump's campaign, accessed information from as many as 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge.

Professor Gan Chee Lip, Director of the Temasek Laboratories @ NTU, said this study shows how devices with seemingly strong security can be attacked using a side - channel, as sensor data could be diverted by malicious applications to spy on user behaviour and help to access PIN and password information, and more.

The federal investigation and threats followed recent news that the data collection firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

The Data Profile is an annual publication of summarized student trends, which has been re-launched on modern web technology to provide improved access and a more interactive user experience.

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According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user's device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user's knowledge.»

Cooper said BlackBerry Enterprise Application Middleware will include a set of APIs, libraries and server software that will make it easier for developers to build «super apps» that can access instant data push and alerts, use efficient file transfers with enterprise applications, and make it easy to query a user's device for geo - location, presence, current camera image, calendar availability, device type and much more.

RIM was criticized for its decision to not include a native email client on the BlackBerry PlayBook — users can access their email by wirelessly connecting their PlayBook to their BlackBerry smartphone — however RIM officials have maintained that by ensuring no email data is stored on the PlayBook itself, the device is more secure for government IT departments.

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Regular Steam users will soon have access to a lot more data on games.

Yes, I know R is very powerful and can do a lot of this but what I'm aiming at would be much more user friendly than that and far more along the lines of what the KNMI Explorer, Appinsy and WoodfortheTrees web sites have achieved i.e. access to and the ability to analyse the data without any specialised programming (R, Python, Ruby etc) skills.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

Then it emerged that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm, gained access to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users.

I fully agree with Michael that true innovation builds on open access to public legal data to deliver new tools that solve real problems and enable users to do more (disclosure: we're proudly part of the LegalX cohort too).

Users are becoming increasingly «concerned with what they see as Facebook's willingness to change the rules of play — first encouraging people to share personal information with a more limited group of friends, then allowing that data to be accessed in new, unexpected ways.»

In addition, for the information a firm does retain, a strong data retention policy can ensure that information that is no longer needed for any immediate work is archived to a location where it is only accessible to a few select users, making it more difficult for a cybercriminal to access it.

And more about Google and Facebook because of their global reach, access to location and content across all devices, an insatiable greed for user data including collation from all available sources to build detailed long term profiles of individuals, not unlike files by the stasi.

These changes included giving users the option to remove apps in bulk, restricting app developers» access to user data, giving users more visibility to their apps from News Feed and taking more actions to safeguard user privacy.

Facebook has made it easier to manage just which third - party apps have access to your data, with a small tweak potentially making it far more likely that users will take control over their privacy.

Facebook said this week that up to 87 million users — more than the 50 million users estimated by Wylie when he spoke to the media outlets that reported on this issue in mid-March — may have had their information accessed by Cambridge Analytica, which obtained the data from Cambridge University researcher Kogan.

The investigation was spurred by reports that Facebook allowed political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to gain access to the personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users and use that data to craft targeted political advertising campaigns.

If end users were more knowledgeable about what data they allow third parties to access from Facebook, this «data leak» would never have happened

Thanks to Facebook Platform, the personality quiz is able to gain access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Zuckerberg's post came following public outcry in response to a report last weekend from The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by the Trump campaign, gained access to private information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their profiles, locations and what they like.

Facebook (FB) is under intense pressure to answer these questions — and more — after it admitted that a company linked to President Donald Trump's campaign had accessed and improperly stored a huge trove of its user data.

More restrictions will be placed on developers» access to user data when those users no longer engage with the apps.

The technology company also said at the time it would investigate all applications that had gotten access to large amounts of data before the firm changed its platform in 2014, would further restrict developers» data access and roll out a tool to let users more easily revoke access by applications to their data.

As a result, participants unknowingly gave the researchers access to the profiles of their Facebook friends, allowing them to collect data from millions more users.

«Access to user data enables developers to create more viral applications.»

Zuckerberg then reiterated the same efforts he announced last week: that the company has limited what information Facebook apps have access to, will be reminding users which apps they have allowed to access their data, and will be auditing all apps that have previously had access to large amounts of user information in order to identify more abusers.

Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm with ties to President Trump's 2016 campaign, suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, on Tuesday, amid the furor over the access it gained to private information on more than 50 million Facebook users.

The Palo Alto, Calif. - based social network will also roll out a new tool that will allow users to more easily see which apps currently have access to their data.