Sentences with phrase «on data collection by»

Privacy groups have pushed for stricter controls on data collection by Facebook and other companies for years, and the most recent controversy even prompted Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to suggest he'd be open to more regulation of his company.

With all the state budget cuts are you seeing less emphasis being placed on data collection by districts (of course this would by state), but in general has there been a downplay?

Sen. Richard Blumenthal discussed the Consent Act, new legislation that would put restraints on data collection by Facebook, that he and Sen. Ed Markey (D - MA) put forth on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Under the agreement, the replacement for the Safe Harbour agreement struck down by the CJEU in 2015, the United States agreed to limit the collection of and access to Europeans» data stored on U.S. servers.

Taught by Kevin Hartman, Head of Industry at Google, this free marketing course on «Digital Analytics» focuses on the specific data collection, analysis and visualization techniques used by the world's top brands.

That's in addition to a 500,000 - square - foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand's first in - house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data - corruption visuals.

With money from Merck for Mothers, a charitable initiative created by the pharmaceutical giant, the project has funded a web portal that provides information on starting and improving review committees and a tool, the Maternal Mortality Review Information Application, that shows jurisdictions how to standardize data collection from review panels so that it's comparable from one state to the next.

When she's not dreaming of visiting the red planet, Caret is also working to ensure the smooth operation of Boeing satellites, which are relied on by both the U.S. government for data collection, and consumers for myriad smartphone functions, such as GPS and location - based apps.

It describes sophisticated tools for targeting the devices of individual users, in contrast to the revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's of mass data collection on millions of web and phone users worldwide.

By looking to Europe, which has meticulous data collection practices and a history of paid leave stretching back to the 19th century, researchers have been getting a better and better handle on the extent to which varying amounts of paid leave can save kids» lives.

In his view the company also needs to create systems to audit third party data collection and sharing «on an ongoing basis» — and thereby «hold third parties to their promises by engineering controls and contractual lockups» — including «effective remedies when third parties break the rules — including enforceable rights to audit, retrieve, delete and destroy data improperly acquired or used, and liquidated and actual damages for violations».

The hearings didn't reveal new information about Facebook's practices, but they suggested that many members of Congress are ready to move on from the status quo of weak privacy protections and unfettered data collection by companies in the U.S. Below, we break down some of the top hits, misses, and unanswered questions from the hearings.

During the House committee hearing on Wednesday, Zuckerberg claimed not to know what «shadow profiles» are, even though this term has been used for years to describe Facebook's collection of data about people who don't use its services by harvesting the inboxes and smartphone contacts of active Facebook users.

Of course it is not the only data generated by messaging: entailed in the ease - of - use that comes from relying on centralized servers for key exchange is the necessary collection by those servers of metadata.

To focus on simply Google and Facebook, though, is to miss how much other data collection is going on: ad networks are tracking you on nearly every website you visit, your credit card company is tracking your purchases (and by extension your location), your grocery store is tracking your eating habit, the list goes on and on.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

He was co-founder and CEO of Meridian Equity Partners, a licensed financial and lending firm; Strategic Intelligence, an online publishing firm; and Marketshare, a data collection and market - research company acquired by Harris Interactive (AC Nielsen) where he also served on the global management team.

Then, in August, a second hacker who goes by the alias Peace of Mind began offering a large collection of stolen Yahoo credentials — including user names, easily cracked passwords, birth dates, ZIP codes and email addresses — on a site called TheRealDeal, where hackers can buy and sell stolen data, Mr. Holden said.

That, as it turns out, is the number reported by a New York Times story on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica published Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the collection and use of the data.

Even though it was produced by a financial site, the report isn't only concerned with charitable giving; time spent on «volunteering and service» also factored into the overall numbers which were compiled by looking at data from a collection of sources including Gallup, the Census Bureau, Department of Housing and Urban Development, the IRS and the organization Feeding America.

Putting dads in the data: why the UK needs a rethink on family statistics The Government should review data collection on families by all publicly - funded bodies, which currently risk failing millions of children because they typically gather such weak information about fathers.

Her work in systematic reviews has consistently addressed tough topics and has included documenting harms of episiotomy, the limitations of data about outcomes of fetal surgery, inconsistencies in results of programs designed to reduce use of cesarean, marginal effectiveness of medications for overactive bladder, and the burden on cervical cancer prevention programs introduced by liquid cytology collection for pap testing.

Data collection forms for the study were designed to be started by the midwife providing intrapartum care, to accompany the woman if she was transferred, and to be completed on or after the fifth postnatal day (see appendix 3 on bmj.com).

Collaborative survey of US Birth Certificate forms, by state, to capture the nature of existing data collection, and to inform recommendations to improve accurate and comprehensive data on planned place of birth and provider types.

Since Mr. Brundige cited statistics in his report to the town board it would be silly not to conclude this letter with statistics based purely on logic: Since the error of machine - collected data at the airport versus actual human data collection is 10 times what Mr. Brundige reported for a specific period of time, then the town board must correct all data in Mr. Brundige's report by multiplying the figures by 10.

Gianaris» bill comes on the heels of an announcement by Gov. Cuomo that New York, five other states, and Puerto Rico are working together to research and analyze gun violence and improve and share data collection.

Data collection was conducted on behalf of CBS News by SSRS of Media, PA..

The serious flaws in the collection of data on road safety revealed by this report are deeply worrying.»

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specdata - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specData by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

The so - called hiatus was disproved by a team of NOAA climate scientists in a 2015 study that found the data set supporting a pause was inaccurate because it relied on different methods of temperature collection.

Even though experts disagree on the best way to build in security, designers could start simply by requiring users to change passwords during setup, collecting less personal data, or even allowing consumers to opt out of data collection.

As detailed in an accompanying guide, NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Data Repository: The Chile Earthquake Database — Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the noData Repository: The Chile Earthquake Database — Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the noData from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the nodata on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north.

The research, made possible by the availability of high - resolution data in space and time on veterinarian movements in the study area, shed light on the actual significance of operator movements in disease spread, a still poorly understood topic due to the highly diverse and complex nature of such movements and to privacy issues in data collection.

By ignoring how the collection of data on political repression changes over time, human rights watchers may be misjudging reports that seem to show respect for human rights has not been improving, according to a Penn State political scientist.

By continuing to find ways to squeeze in more experiments while making the way people interact with LCLS more straightforward, Fuoss said, «We can improve productivity and allow the scientific users to have a more hands - on role in the actual data collection.

Duke scholars led by Pusey are now working on digitizing the entire collection of Gombe data in the Goodall archive to enable more longitudinal studies of this kind.

By comparing anti-neutrino detection records with publicly available data on the power plant, researchers were able to confirm the continuous and stable operation of the detector for yearlong periods, with remote and automatic data collection and detector calibration.

As an effect of criticism expressed by the CAS Panel on the statistical procedure initially placed on the determination of the evaluation's DLs, new statistical evaluations were performed on a heightened variety of hGH doping control data (samples from sportsmen handled under actual doping control conditions of sample collection, transport, storage and evaluation, including standardized analytic protocols and instrumentation) by two independent teams of statisticians.

Sites like eHarmony and Match.com still target the serious - about - marriage types, but these have become the industry's dinosaurs, their fee - based business model in the process of being superseded by a free model focused on data collection and advertising.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

Should regulations and laws evolve which impose limitations and restrictions on DatingBits.Com's collection and use of such data (beyond the limitations DatingBits.Com already imposes upon itself, as these are set forth in this Privacy Policy), DatingBits.Com will be pleased to abide by such laws and / or regulations.

This regulations set rules for how and when we can collect personal data from users on our website, so is now required by law to be transparent about the persona data we collect, also be relevant and limited to what is necessary for the intended purpose of collection, but, specially, gain consent from individuals before using it.

More and more, Edward becomes informed on the questionable and intrusive tracking, legal manipulation, and data collection being secretly conducted by the U.S. government on not only foreign threats, but its own citizens without formal warrants, court orders, or proper search - and - seizure procedures.

The first phase of the project (the phase covered by this grant) proposes a large - scale data collection effort in a handful of urban centers and will focus on two goals.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

As in the past, this year's edition is built on twin foundations: the detailed data collection and analysis of the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which mines its annual policy survey to provide comprehensive, state - by - state grading in key areas of state policy and performance; and the rigorous investigation of a timely issue in education policy by the Education Week reporting staff.

She adds that handhelds are best when they are used by students for data collection in science classes, and as an «on - the - fly mobile tool for teachers — interconnection with planning, e-mail, [and] SIS (student information systems).»

Instruct students to write their nature name (by scientific name and common name) on the NM data - collection form.