The way it handles data can take two distinctive forms:
personal information about the user who purchased the eBook (such as an email address) or an ID number that the distributor can use to look up the user or transaction in a database.
Mr. Zuckerberg's notes, which were photographed during the testimony, also contained a prepared response if lawmakers echoed criticism from Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, who has chided Facebook and other companies for collecting gobs
of personal information about their users.
It will no longer allow apps to
see personal information about users, like religion, political views, relationship status, education, work history, fitness activity and what books, movies and music people have consumed.
A New York Times article from today further illuminated the scale of Cambridge Analytica's efforts and showed how the company
used personal information about users to conduct targeted political outreach.
The way it handles data can take two distinctive forms:
personal information about the user who purchased the eBook (such as an email address) or an ID number that the distributor can use to look up the user or transaction in a database and is otherwise meaningless.
Instagram can read a user's direct messages, and all companies collect a range
of personal information about their users — including where they are and who they have in their phone book - permission for which is buried in jargon - full terms and conditions.
According to a new batch of leaked documents from former contractor Edward Snowden, the NSA and a British spy agency would regularly utilize «leaky» mobile apps to find out
personal information about users — everything from your age, model of phone, location, gender and marital status was evidently of interest to them.
We do not knowingly permit any third parties to collect
any personal information about our users over time and across different sites.
But the apps, the agency found, were able to obtain almost
all personal information about a user.