Sentences with word «nefarious»

The fact that the comments are identical isn't a sign of nefarious activity in and of itself, but the lack of a clear source for the message, the alphabetically - organized filings, the reported denials of those who are listed as commenters, and the sheer volume of comments listed in such a short time frame, raise questions about their legitimacy.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

Talk started with the legendary Tim Hortons franchise before leading to the less famous Pizza Pizza, where Payne told me there were rumblings of nefarious activities on the part of some franchise owners.

Jack Harper may have shipped his daughter out on one of the Pathfinder ships to help her escape the coming threat of the Reapers, or for more nefarious purposes.

The good news is that Gudegast collaborated on the script with Prison Break creator Paul T. Scheuring, who clearly has some experience with nefarious plotting.

But the scientists at the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation have a more nefarious plan for the Bhut Jolokia — pepper - bomb hand grenades.

If a child is left alone or exploited by nefarious others, resilient traits surface to help him or her to survive hostile environments.

The mid-credits scene showed us that the story was nowhere near over, that Cybertronian sorceress Quintessa was still alive and had more nefarious plans for Earth.

«Unfortunately, the bad practice of taking residential waste to medians which was in nefarious activities of those who wanted to avoid paying PSP contractors in the old era has continued and is threatening to sabotage the current efforts of the government to quickly evacuate waste.

Sooo... we're just gonna pretend that the issue with Facebook is that they had no choice but to capitulate to a country's local laws on privacy and thus the fiasco over them selling data to a shady third party with nefarious intent is completely out of their hands?

«It's not as nefarious as that sounds all the time,» Mezrich argued.

Overview Over recent years, Facebook has been plagued by the type of nefarious scheme that we refer to collectively as survey scams.

Another source of concern about smart speakers and digital assistants are hidden vulnerabilities within them; as these devices are intended to be connected up to everything from your lights to your doors, users are concerned that hackers could cause physical damage or hack the devices for other nefarious purposes such as committing burglaries.

Computer security analysts had discovered something nefarious about a piece of advertising software called Superfish, which comes pre-installed on cheap Lenovo laptops like the Yoga 2.

Although this move has had a lot of criticism lately, the exchange argues that it's crucial to keep the platform clean and away from nefarious characters.

Some do so by nefarious means, such as exchanging guaranteed 5 - star reviews with other authors (don't do this, just don't).

Then there are of course those interested in the gold mine of health data for more nefarious reasons like fraud.

But, thanks to new rules and regulations, it's much more difficult for individuals of nefarious intent to unlock these shady benefits.

Their curiosity will trigger a series of unexpected events that will get them involved in a government conspiracy and a mysterious U.S. Army general with his own nefarious plans.

Cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile and regulators as well as tech companies have increasingly sought to clamp down on nefarious activity.

Spacey is known for playing nefarious characters in movies such as Se7en and The Usual Suspects and more recently the Netflix original series House of Cards, and based on the reveal trailer, we should expect more of the same from his role in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

The history of coloring food is stained with nefarious deeds.

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

First and foremost, the goal is to ensure the playing field is level and whomever won a given race did so based on performance and not nefarious means where their team something technical inspection to provide an unfair advantage.

Math doesn't lie but people with nefarious agendas do.

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As usual, you have to fight the Templars and stop whatever nefarious acts of evil they're cooking up.

News brokethat asthe cryptocurrency market continues to grow and coin prices rise, security researchers have warned that a virtual currency «arms race» is looming as nefarious actors look to exploit the lucrative forum.

The staff is hell - bent on killing all casino guests in the most nefarious ways possible, individuals clueless to their demise also trapped inside devilish masks.

Norton recently added the ability to stop nefarious changes to the system's Registry file, as well as an enhanced exploit blocker to stop potentially unwanted apps from being installed.

But the mill owners, backed by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe.

«Cambridge Analytica is a firm that has acquired a reputation in several countries in particularly nefarious ways, including the use of personal profiles to manipulate people's behavior,» Warner said in a statement provided to The Daily Beast.

ToyTalk's company's CEO, Oren Jacob, vows that his company doesn't have anything nefarious planned for the collected data, telling the Washington Post:

Unfortunately, your examples are actually coincidence and not a result of nefarious actions like you think.

Proving that Big Coal's nefarious influence knows no bounds, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that pollution from coal burning has contaminated the Arctic for the last 100 years.

Dark elf Malekith gets his hands on it for his own nefarious ends before being defeated and spoiler: it's all - kinds of powerful.

At the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative» spublic launch earlier this month, many questions were raised around climate geoengineering's safety not just for humans and the environment, but also from nefarious individuals or governments.

Now suppose the government of Canada needs machine learning expertise, say to catch nefarious people who wish to do harm to this country.

«Now before any speculation happens about nefarious business dealings or behind the scenes decisions let me be absolutely clear,» Richards wrote of the split with Graphicly.

Put simply, the Law Society bought face - time with political parties in order to advance its agenda as a lawyer regulator and promote justice issues: far from nefarious goals.

«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.

Even with all of the troubles plaguing the service, including nefarious groups using it to spread hateful content and revenge porn, both issues a company representative previously told Polygon they take very seriously, watching Drake and Ninja use Discord to come together and hang out for an hour is an example of why Discord was built in the first place.

Because people who want to do nefarious things with data rarely play exactly by your rules just because you ask them to.

In it, Melissa McCarthy portrays a smart but under - appreciated CIA analyst who, following a massive security breach that leaves the regular agents (such as those played by Jason Statham and Jude Law) out of commission, winds up going out into the field herself to follow a bizarrely bewigged Bulgarian baddie (Rose Byrne) who is involved with a particularly nefarious plot with worldwide implications.

The global proliferation of smart phones, individually associated with a unique identifier (IP address), and thus geographical region, in conjunction with social media information on the hearts and minds of users, data mined and sold to corporations with nefarious intentions has hijacked the zeitgeist of individuals, thus regions and voting blocks and countries and entire societies by aggregating the sum - total of information.

And despite some efforts to dismiss success stories as anecdotal exceptions that are not replicable, or are somehow masking other nefarious practices, many educators and school leaders know better.