Sentences with phrase «of user data obtained»

At issue is Cambridge Analytica's use of user data obtained by a third - party developer, a University of Cambridge professor named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan.

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Some of the company's recent problems include the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtaining data on up to 87 million Facebook users.

Zuckerberg is already expected to reiterate some of the apologies he's been offering in the wake of revelations that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm tied to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, to obtain personal information from as many as 87 million of its users.

Missouri is investigating Facebook's business and privacy practices following reports that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained personal data about 50 millions of the social network's users.

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.

NEW YORK — An audit of Facebook's privacy practices for the Federal Trade Commission found no problems even though the company knew at the time that a data - mining firm improperly obtained private data from millions of users — raising questions about the usefulness of such audits.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off with a room full of senators on Tuesday in what many believed would be a tough grilling about privacy in the wake of news that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained data about 87 million Facebook users.

Facebook allows ad buyers to obtain large amounts of data (browsing behavior, likes, interests, etc.) on its users.

The most disruptive part of the proposed regulation, according to tech industry insiders and analysts, is the requirement that companies obtain consent for any data they keep on their users.

Cambridge Analytica is accused of obtaining the data of 50 million Facebook users via a quiz app without their permission.

On Friday, Facebook announced that it had suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica for violating the social media company's terms and conditions by obtaining user data from a third party source without users» permissions.

In the wake of news that the Facebook data of 50 million people was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm, many users are mulling whether it is time to leave the social network.

In the assessments, mandated by a 2011 consent decree, PwC deemed Facebook's internal controls effective at protecting users» privacy — even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was improperly obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

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.

In order to leverage the deep pool of data Facebook collects on users, the company mixes information that it obtains from users themselves (Pages a user liked, for instance) with information from advertisers (membership status in a loyalty program, for example) and with data obtained from third party providers.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A Trump - affiliated firm under scrutiny for inappropriately obtaining data on tens of millions of Facebook users created profiling algorithms that «took fake news to the next level,» a former employee said.

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].

Companies can no longer hide behind convoluted and often ignored user agreements, but must obtain consent with a full understanding of the user where their data may go.

The announcement, made late Friday night, was designed to preempt reports published by The New York Times and The Guardian that would have exposed the fact that Cambridge Analytica had obtained information on 50 million Facebook users — and that Facebook had known about the improper availability of that user data for two years.

The DCMS committee wrote to Zuckerberg on March 20 — following newspaper reports based on interviews with a former employee of UK political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, who revealed the company obtained Facebook data on 50 million users — calling for him to give oral evidence.

The firm is accused of obtaining the data of 50 million Facebook users to target them with personalised propaganda for clients.

The move comes in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy with ties to President Donald Trump's campaign, obtained the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

Facebook said its policies had been violated when Cambridge University scholar Aleksandr Kogan passed the data of millions of users, obtained through a personality test app, to Cambridge and SCL.

Facebook's late Friday disclosure that a data analytics company with ties to the Trump campaign improperly obtained — and then failed to destroy — the private data of 50 million users is gen

Identify and obtain qualified sources of data that illustrate user behaviour and contribute to the development of psychographic profiling in the region

In light of the sprawling controversy around its role in improperly obtaining data from Facebook users through a third party, the company will end its U.S. and U.K. operat

And thereby seek to foist a greater share of the responsibility for obtaining consent to processing user data onto its customers.

In light of the sprawling controversy around its role in improperly obtaining data from Facebook users through a third party, the company will end its U.S. and U.K. operations.

Wyden, one of the loudest digital privacy champions in Congress, wants the public to use Facebook's Cambridge Analytica debacle to demand that social networks obtain «explicit consent» from users before sharing their personal data with anyone — including advertisers.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

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It covers an automated food service ordering system comprising non-transitory computer - readable media storing executable instructions to obtain historical context data indicating past statuses associated with one or more customers; obtain historical menu item ordering data indicating past times during which customers ordered menu items from each of multiple food services; obtain context data from a personal electronic device that indicates current, recent or scheduled statuses of a user, including caloric intake or exercise activity; determining a future time for delivery of a menu item based on the obtained data; selecting a future food service from the multiple food services; determining a lead time for an order for the menu item; and initiating the order for the future food service by at least the lead time.

Issued in May 2011, it covers a computer system comprising a data store containing a decision tree that is constructed to produce a predicted geographic location for an IP address associated with a user; and a computing device that obtains a first set of sample data including IP addresses and user profile information; trains the decision tree with the first set of sample data; obtains a second set of sample data including geographic location information correlated with an IP address; prunes the trained decision tree with the second set of data; and then qualifies the decision tree with a third set of sample data to assign to each leaf node a confidence score indicating the degree of accuracy of a predicted geographic location.

In March, the consulting firm was engulfed in controversy about how it obtained and used data on millions of Facebook users in American elections.

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Facebook's data restrictions come as the company continues to deal with the fall out from Cambridge Analytica obtaining personal information from millions of Facebook users.

The average Facebook users has nearly 200 friends so if Cambridge Analytica accessed the friends of 270,000 users, the data of more than 50 million people could have been obtained.

Zuckerberg's remarks were his first since bombshell reports from The New York Times and The Guardian / The Observer alleged British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained and retained the personal information of 50 million Facebook users without their permission — 30 million of them with enough details to match users to other records and build profiles of them.

Late last week, Facebook admitted it knew, but didn't notify users, that political intelligence firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained data on hundreds of thousands of Facebook users without their consent.

The new dating feature asks Facebook's users to trust the social network with yet more of their personal data — confidence that was severely dented after revelations that lax Facebook data policies enabled a political ad targeting firm to obtain data on 87 million users without their consent.

The company came to public attention in March when Facebook announced — on the eve of two explosive newspaper reports in The New York Times and the U.K.'s Observer — it had learned Cambridge Analytica and its parent company had failed to delete personal data that the social network knew it had improperly obtained on Facebook users three years ago.

Facebook Inc. is drawing scrutiny from the main U.S. privacy watchdog and half a dozen congressional committees over how the personal data of 50 million users was obtained by a data analytics firm that helped elect President Donald Trump.

Web site Security As a condition to your use of this Web site, you agree that you will not, and you will not take any action intended to: (i) access data that is not intended for you; (ii) invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about any other user of this Web site; (iii) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of this Web site or MFS» network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (iv) attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network or otherwise attempt to disrupt our business; or (v) send unsolicited mail, including promotions and / or advertising of products and services.

But last month, the latest Facebook scandal turned up the heat on Mr. Zuckerberg, when it was disclosed that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm connected to President Trump's 2016 campaign, improperly obtained the personal data of what Facebook now estimates to be up to 87 million of its users.

Facebook last week accused Cambridge University psychologist Aleksandr Kogan of obtaining data on at least 30 million Facebook users and inappropriately sharing it with Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm.

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of four defendants, two Russian intelligence officers and two state - sponsored hackers, for the theft of Yahoo user data in late 2014, as well as cookie forging to obtain access to user accounts on our network in 2015 and 2016.

Lawmakers in the U.S. and the U.K. want answers about how exactly Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 election campaign, was reportedly able to obtain and use data on tens of millions of Facebook users.

Facebook acknowledged that it allowed Kogan — a University of Cambridge researcher in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who obtained the data through his role at a company called Global Science Research — to collect that information with user permission.

Cambridge Analytica denies Wylie's claims that the firm held on to data obtained illegally from millions of Facebook users.

It stands accused of harvesting Facebook user data to profile voters that that were ultimately targeted by the Trump campaign, which spent over $ 6 million on information obtained by the firm.