Sentences with phrase «of election information»

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On Monday night, the Times reported that Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, was planning to leave the company in August as it grapples with a storm of controversies relating to its role in spreading misinformation before the 2016 election.

In a Gallup poll during the 2016 general election, 51 % of Americans said the president should release all relevant medical information, an increase from 2004 when 38 % held that view.

Sandberg also said, in a different interview, that Facebook could not conduct such an audit because it must wait for the U.K. information commissioner to finish its investigation of Cambridge Analytica's election activity.

Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, and his team found evidence that Russia had used Facebook to spread propaganda shortly around the time of the election.

Less than an hour after news site The Intercept published a report on Monday detailing Russian hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department said federal investigators had arrested someone suspected of leaking classified information to the media.

With Facebook still reeling from accusations that its laxity enabled Russia to conduct large - scale information warfare during the election, polarizing the American populace and perhaps influencing the result, Stamos and his fellow executive were anxious to minimize the appearance of culpability here.

Whether we're talking about the recent Uber revelation, or the world's cyber-elite meddling in elections, stealing data with impunity and infiltrating power grids — one change in particular seems like a safe bet: the rise of chief information security officer, or CISO for short.

Hackers could pose a threat come November elections, said Mark Graff, founder of cybersecurity company Tellagraff and the former chief information security officer for Nasdaq, during his keynote speech at the New York Institute of Technology's Annual Cybersecurity Conference last week.

The DNC's recruitment of Lord comes after a disastrous 2016 election cycle for the Democrats in terms of cyber security, in which operatives working on behalf of the Russian government obtained countless emails and information to selectively leak to the public.

In an article for Bloomberg View published shortly after the election, Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, called the idea «pretty dumb» and said it would be extremely difficult to implement and require so many exemptions as to leave its scope narrow.

According to the Democrats» memo, the DOJ provided the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with «contemporaneous evidence» of Russia's interference in the 2016 election; information about «concerning Russian links and outreach to Trump campaign officials,»; Page's history with Russia - linked individuals and entities; and Page's «suspicious activities in 2016,» including those during a trip he took to Moscow in July of that year, during which he met with high - ranking Russian officials.

Among other things, the Democratic memo accuses Nunes of cherry - picking information to misrepresent the intelligence community's work and discredit the FBI's investigation into Russia's election interference.

Rather, counterintelligence veterans said following the Nunes memo's release that officials likely included the Papadopoulos information to demonstrate the extent of Russia's election interference.

Besides Mr. Drexler, major (5 % or greater) shareholders in the firm, as of the annual proxy in April, include FMR LLC (which includes the Fidelity Contrafund), Baron Capital Group, BlackRock, and T Rowe Price, all of whom voted in favor of the directors up for election as well as the other management proposals — and Columbia Wanger Asset Management (whose parent Ameriprise, did not return requests for information).

How Apps Are Shaping The 2012 Election (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote RepElection (EngineYard via Mashable) Here's how the U.S. has used mobile apps, in both sending and consuming information, during the 2012 election season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Repelection season so far: 70 % of the most active iPhone states (New York, California, Illinois) tend to vote Democrat, while 70 % of the most active Android states (Colorado, Arizona, Georgia) tend to vote Republican.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

Even disrupting communications and digital flow of information in a region could adversely affect the outcome of an election.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian.

But the stakes grew Wednesday when Facebook revealed that information belonging to as many as 87 million of its users may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, which gathered the data with the intent of swaying elections.

«As one of the companies that played a prominent role in the election campaign, Cambridge Analytica has been asked by the House Intelligence Committee to provide it with information that might help its investigation,» the statement said.

The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of the voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

The number of Americans looking for information about moving overseas increased a whopping 105 % between the November 2016 presidential election and the January 2017 inauguration.

My pay, my job prospects, the performance of my portfolio, the performance of my insurancer's portfolio, the next election — knowing that growth might slow gives me information about all this stuff, without having to know that there will be a recession.

But before the general election, the Trump campaign dropped Cambridge Analytica for the Republican National Committee data, reportedly never using any of the «psychographic» information.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

New Social Data Initiative to equip scholars and researchers with processes, data, and information necessary to examine the impact of social media on society, beginning with elections and democracy.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

Not only is it trying to comply with GDPR, but it's also dealing with the negative backlash from users and media following revelations that its data policies allowed the personal information of as many as 87 million unknowing users to end up in the hands of an outside data firm that worked with U.S. President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

Additional information regarding the members of the Audit Committee and the Audit Committee's roles and responsibilities is set forth under «Proposal No. 1 — Election of Directors» and «Board Committees» on pages 12 - 22 and 30 - 31 of this proxy statement.

Since 2014, Cambridge Analytica legally obtained information on as many as 87 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing elections.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage of mile - wide loopholes in Facebook policies and run off with 50 million users» data, on Friday.

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.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» Zuckerberg said in the signed ads, referring to the data analytics firm accused of misusing the social network's user information during the 2016 US election.

As a result of this election, the information that we provide stockholders may be different than you might get from other public companies in which you hold equity.

The number of Americans looking for information about moving overseas increased a whopping 105 % between the November 2016 presidential election and the January 2017 inauguration, according to the retire - overseas experts at InternationalLiving.com.

According to a survey of 3,760 U.S. adults by the Pew Research Center, 35 percent of people 18 to 29 years old say social media is the most helpful source of information on the 2016 presidential election.

But, in light of the election and all those infrastructure goodies on the way, there is one point that needs to be clarified for folks to have a better understanding of the evolution of monetary policy based on the available information or things that can be safely inferred.

We need to know, for starters, whether any of these companies or their employees knew or suspected what Russia was doing in the 2016 presidential election, and, if so, what they did with this information.

This article provides a summary of the 2004 Alberta General Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election's final results.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

Freedom of Information requests filed by the New Democrat Official Opposition have revealed that the Christy Clark Liberal government reduced youth addiction treatment spaces by 25 percent after promising in the 2013 election to build more spaces.

The company used this information to compile psychological profiles of the users, and to create election propaganda appealing to their deepest feelings.

This article provides a summary of the 2003 Nova Scotia election, including information on pre-election standings and polls, an introduction to the leaders and platforms of the major parties, and the election's final results.

Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential elections, violated its Terms Of Service by exploiting personal information of some 50 million Facebook userOf Service by exploiting personal information of some 50 million Facebook userof some 50 million Facebook users.

If people's information can be used to manipulate elections, it surely can be misused for a whole bunch of unethical activities that can cause discomfort to the user.

He used the term a «breach of trust» to describe the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political data firm linked to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign gained access to information on some 50 million Facebook users.