Sentences with phrase «personal data of users who»

While the opposition party Congress has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official mobile app was sending personal user data to a third party in the US, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has accused the Congress of transmitting personal data of users who signed up on the party's official app to a server in Singapore.

Theyexplained, «Facebook apparently contends that this incident of harvesting tens of millions of profiles was not the result of a technical data breach; however, the reports allege that Facebook gave away the personal data of users who never authorized these developers to obtain it, and relied on terms of service and settings that were confusing and perhaps misleading to its users.»

The attorneys general told Facebook: «Facebook apparently contends that this incident of harvesting tens of millions of profiles was not the result of a technical data breach; however, the reports allege that Facebook gave away the personal data of users who never authorized these developers to obtain it, and relied on terms of service and settings that were confusing and perhaps misleading to its users.»

Not exact matches

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

But it turned out that this app didn't just scrape the personal data of the roughly 270,000 users who agreed to take the personality quiz.

But prior to that these had been lax enough for vast amounts of personal data to be sucked out without most users being aware — because the data sharing was being «authorized» by their Facebook friends (who also likely weren't aware what they were agreeing to).

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Evidently finding a way to close down the legal liabilities and / or engineer consent from users to that degree of murky privacy intrusion — involving pools of aggregated personal data gathered by goodness knows who, how, where or when — was a bridge too far for the company's army of legal and policy staffers.

Cambridge Analytica used the personal Facebook data of more than 50 million users, acquired through a third party, to create profiles of prospective voters and «microtarget» persuasive voting messages to them, according to a whistleblower who told his story to The Guardian and The New York Times.

Personal Capital has over 800,000 users of their free financial dashboard to help manage your money and I'm a consultant who is privy to some of their data to share with all of you.

Ashley Madison, a website that helps millions of married people cheat on their spouses, has lost a trove of personal and confidential information to hackers who are threatening to release the data of more than 37 million users.

A former employee of Cambridge Analytica, who claims the firm used the personal data of Facebook users improperly, has called for assurances that the Brexit vote was made «fairly».

White was the journalist who broke the AdultFriendFinder story, finding the incredibly personal data of 3.9 m users posted on the dark web, by a hacker who said he did it because the company owed his friend $ 200.

Disclosure of aggregated data does not reveal personal information about individual Site users in any way that identifies who they are or how to contact them.

Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in 2014 — saying as many as 87 million Facebook users could have had their data «improperly shared», thereby confirming the testimony of ex-Cambridge Analytica employee, Chris Wylie, who last month told a UK parliamentary committee he believed that substantially more than 50M Facebook users had had their information swiped.

He noted that while Facebook already has privacy tools available for its users, the company is trying to take a broader view of its responsibility to protect them from those who may want to abuse their personal data or manipulate the platform to get greater distribution for fake news or hate speech.

A Cambridge University psychology professor who developed a personality - prediction app reportedly passed along that kind of personal data on 50 million Facebook users — 270,000 users of the app plus their networks of friends — to Cambridge Analytica, an advertising data firm once used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Yes, the man who once called his users «dumb fucks» for entrusting him to be the steward of their personal data is in the midst of a disastrous and very public reckoning.

The company also threatens to ban developers who won't agree to a full audit and misuse the personal data of its users.

The raw user data was acquired using Facebook's own APIs, though abusing its terms of service, resulting in data harvesting from an estimated 50 million Facebook friends, who didn't know about the app or give consent, yet still had their personal info sucked up.

On Saturday, the user of Twitter handle @fs0c131y, described on the account as a «French security expert» and who identified himself to The Indian Express as Robert Baptiste, said the app may be providing personal user data to a third party without the users» consent.

Facebook's response to the clutch of users who are suddenly woke — triggered to delve into their settings by the Facebook data misuse scandal and #DeleteFacebook backlash — to the fact the social behemoth is, quietly and continuously, harvesting sensitive personal data about them and their friends tells you everything you need to know about the rotten state of tech industry ad - supported business models.

A security researcher, who has previously highlighted some vulnerabilities in India's national identity card project and who tweets under the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, posted here a series of tweets on Saturday stating the app was sending personal user data to a third - party domain that was traced to an American company.

Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by British data analytics firm «Cambridge Analytica,» who reportedly helped Donald Trump win the US presidency in 2016.

The security researcher, who has previously highlighted some vulnerabilities in India's national identity card project and who tweets under the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, caused a flurry on Saturday with a series of tweets saying the Modi app was sending personal user data to a third - party domain that was traced to an American company.

Motherboard is reporting that the US Internal Revenue Service is seeking the personal data of all U.S. Coinbase users who transacted between 2013 and 2015 that a Coinbase spokesman said the exchange site was «very concerned with the indiscriminate breadth of the government's request.»

The revelation came weeks after the disclosure of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, wherein personal data of 77 million users was improperly gathered and misused by the political consultancy firm, who reportedly also helped Donald Trump win the US presidency in 2016.