Sentences with phrase «of personal data by»

He will now face a barrage of questions in D.C. to explain the massive borrowing of personal data by Cambridge Analytica

The project is set to enable consumers to have complete control of their personal data by using the Apex ecosystem.

Our take: There is no suggestion that Facebook was actively complicit in the misuse of personal data by a third party.

Britain's information commissioner says she is using all her legal powers to investigate the handling of personal data by Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.

A group of consumer - advocacy organizations is pressing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook's role in the use of personal data by a political research firm tied to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

Facebook Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Rob Sherman says the company would be willing to speak with federal regulators about the use of personal data by a political research firm tied to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

«The data subject is not given an unambiguous consent to the processing of personal data by applications (no opt - in).

Meanwhile, British MPs are calling on Zuckerberg to come to Westminster to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

Among the measures he said Facebook will take, the company will investigate and look for any potential abuses of personal data by app developers on its platform that have had access to large amounts of user data.

The social network is in the eye of a controversy storm, with fake news, Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica swirling around Menlo Park.

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Also, would such an interpretation impact on the notion of personal data by narrowing it to data which an entity knows relates to an identified or an identifiable person?

When it goes into effect, it will apply to the collection, processing, use of, retention and deletion of personal data by companies.

From the collection of personal data by connected devices, including children's toys, to grooming -LSB-...]

Earlier, a parliamentary committee called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been called on by a parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

I consent to the use of my personal data by Mediacorp and the Mediacorp group of companies (collectively «Mediacorp») to send me marketing and advertising materials in relation to goods and services of Mediacorp and its business partners and for research and analysis

«The data subject is not given an unambiguous consent to the processing of personal data by applications (no opt - in).

And this shifting focus towards businesses may be a good thing, according to Mitchell, who said that mass collection of personal data by the likes of Facebook and Google present more realistic surveillance dangers to the average person.

Not exact matches

As with any data - hungry application, voice assistants are constantly creating new packets of information — highly personal in some cases — that could be accessed or exploited by authorities or hackers.

The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the U.S. government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible by law enforcement.

It is asking the Irish High Court to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which would then decide whether to ban the use of «model contracts» — common legal arrangements used by thousands of firms to transfer personal data outside the 28 - nation bloc.

Also growing in popularity are a variety of new personal tracking devices like Fitbit, Jawbone, and Basis — all with functionality aimed to help us sleep better and improve our lifestyles by leveraging data and technology.

Or, maybe worse, they fall prey to acting as a conduit for some type of organized crime ring looking to make big money by selling or manipulating stolen personal data.

«The ICO has been investigating the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica as part of a wider investigation into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, social media companies and others.

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.

If your information was not affected by what is one of the largest breaches of personal data to date, you got the following message from Facebook (as a pop - up):

Obama's proposed legislation tries to balance security needs with concerns by offering liability protection to companies that provide information in near real - time to the government, while requiring them to strip it of personal data.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

Worst of all, this unwanted attention by government agencies and the courts could hamper its business of collecting and monetizing consumers» personal data (remember, the consumer is the product):

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.

There is a risk of further customer data loss once users have the right to opt out of marketing campaigns and erase their personal data as mentioned above,» according to a note sent by Goldman Sachs analyst Lisa Yang and her team.

Two years ago, I said that by 2020, 90 % of the U.S. population would have willingly agreed to provide at least some of their personal data to the MAW — the omnipresent collision of media, advertising and work in our everyday lives.

The aim is to give consumers control of their personal data as it is collected by companies.

The revelation that the personal data of up to 87 million people may have been misused by consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has sparked backlash and dominated much of the hearing.

Equifax officials are also reportedly being investigated by the US Justice Department after selling stock before the company revealed a data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of Americans.

Late last month, Facebook proposed updates to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and data - use policies that state, in part, that users effectively grant Facebook permission to use their personal information in advertising simply by being on the social network.

The data, according to UpGuard's analysis, «included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trdata, according to UpGuard's analysis, «included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data TrData Trust.

By combining typing and calculating functions, replicating of stored documents, and data transmission over telephone lines, Apple's personal computers offer the promise of a synergistic increase in individual efficiency.

There are some suggestions that the OfficeMax situation is just the latest sign of problems with the collection of personal data, conflating this incident with the unwarranted surveillance of American citizens by the government and the massive data breach of information from Target.

The disclosure that the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users was improperly harvested by the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica has given privacy experts hope that the public will finally listen to them.

Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media companies and other commercial actors.

The EC has a specific lever to press the US on this point — in the form of the Privacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy principles.

The European privacy laws may crimp targeted advertising by limiting the flow of personal data, but firms like Google and Facebook still have an advantage because advertisers are likely to turn to services with reach and enormous audiences — akin to buying an ad during the Super Bowl.

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].

And that's what Facebook's policies used to allow by letting Facebook «friends» basically authorize the use of a user's personal data for them.

I will definitely check out Personal Capital — it looks like it has some features that aren't offered by my current programs of choice: YNAB4 (which I like a whole lot for budgeting), Mint.com (which I'm not a huge fan of but it serves a purpose), and the Morningstar Portfolio Manager (which is good but tedious to enter in data manually)... and of course my Excel spreadsheets, which you'll have to pry from my cold, dead fingers.

Privacy by design: Privacy is not something a company adds on as an afterthought; any online service that needs personal data in order to function must collect the minimum amount of data necessary for that purpose.

We learned recently weekend that the personal data of 87 million user accounts was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that specializes in targeted digital advertising.