A personality -
profiling company called Cambridge Analytica harvested personal data from millions of users and may have used that data to sway voters during the 2016 US presidential election, according to reports published this weekend from The New York Times and The Observer.
Not exact matches
He leaves the
company with what Scotia Capital analyst Patricia Baker
calls strong fundamentals and a solid growth
profile.
This is just the latest in a series of blows for the
company, which began with a high -
profile exposé from The Wall Street Journal last year that
called the
company's underlying technology into question.
According to
company founder Tal Raviv, once the revamped service goes live later this month, members can log onto the DropCard website to see which parts of their
profile information new contacts clicked on, data they can use to do follow up phone
calls or e-mails.
The
company has dealt with a few high
profile customer service complaints in recent years, most notably from a car owner who sued the
company after he says it stopped responding to his emails and
calls about repairs.
Then, last April, he happened upon a USA Today
profile of an Internet
company called ELetter Inc. (408-918-9180).
When Millennial Branding and analytics
company Identified.com combed through millions of Facebook
profiles recently to glean insights about how the social network is being used professionally, they discovered something surprising — among young people (so -
called Gen Y) the fifth most popular job title was «owner.»
The same high -
profile tech
companies that threw out my resume at other career fairs were now
calling me back.
As Deserve, the
company's «credit scoring as a service» platform uses online
profiles, phone and sensor data, psychometric questions and what the
company calls «360 degree feedback» from the user's network to give users insights and contextual information to businesses.
Basecamp has even launched a one - article - per - month web magazine
called The Distance that
profiles companies that have been in business over 25 years.
Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based
company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so -
called psychographic
profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.
The
company, which began working for the Trump campaign in June 2016, promised that its so -
called «psychographic»
profiles could predict the personality and political leanings of every adult in the United States.
Company profiles are being released successively, with campaigns
calling on manufacturers to change practices and enforcement officers to take action where this is possible.
We know Massingham is a director of a
company called AggregateIQ, and that Vote Leave — the official leave campaign — paid AggregateIQ # 3.5 m to do its
profiling and Facebook advertising.
According to Spohrer, postdocs are more likely than doctoral students to match the
company's ideal employee hiring
profile: a so -
called «T - shaped» professional, with both depth of training in one area and a breadth of experience, such as having worked in different countries or having both scientific and business skills.
Then I received a press release from a
company called ScientificMatch, based in Florida, which offers to match couples according to scent - related aspects of their DNA
profiles.
A
company called Scamalytics is offering online dating sites a free scan to check for scammers and fake
profiles.
According to the
company, the game —
called Likebook — uses the individual preferences of each user to suggest potential matches, ensuring they will be shown the
profiles of people they are interested in.
«Ashley angels», as the
company called them, were created mostly from abandoned
profiles, utilizing the photos supplied by former users.
The
company maintains
call centers where Spark representatives help love - starved subscribers find ways to improve their
profiles and dates.
You are automatically signed up to receive emails from a
company called Send Box and you're automatically signed up for the Hookup Assistant, which allows fake
profiles to appear real and suggest features of the site to you or discourage inappropriate site use.
PRESS RELEASE — Jan 31 — Jangl, the
company connecting millions of online
profiles and mobile phones, safely and privately, has teamed with the world's largest free online dating site, Plentyoffish.com, to let online daters get to know each other via text messages, phone
calls and voicemail — all without sharing their real numbers.
Once a guy datings websites fake
profiles up, dating
company gets its money, the scammer
called e-whore gets paid, and the poor victim left with a few bucks less and disappointed.
In his statement, Conru firmly opposed the use of fembots to deceive hopeful customers, and
calls for
companies who use fake
profiles to remove themselves of the online dating community.
In 2009, when Laurie Davis Edwards started a
company called eFlirt Expert, her most popular offering was a dating «concierge» who would write
profiles, suggest matches and respond to messages.
A
company called Virtual Dating Assistants creates your online
profile and.
The
company swiftly paid $ 360 million for an educational tech venture
called Wireless Generation, which had been a contractor for the city schools on two high -
profile projects.
On our suggestion, she set up a publishing
company called Books from Oasis and created a
profile on Amazon.
Luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental has sent out an email to customers who had a booking
profile with the
company to introduce their new benefits program
called Fans of M.O.!
The
profile of the average victim and the extent of the loss may sound surprising but the fraudsters are knowledgeable and persistent, often
calling a victim several times with offers of research, discounts on stocks in overseas
companies, or shares in a firm that is about to float.
Possibly the most high -
profile corporate investigation involving Nigeria in the past year relates to the allegation that Shell and ENI engaged in the bribery of Nigerian officials in connection with their acquisition from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of the interest in an oil prospecting licence (OPL), previously held by a
company called Malabu Oil and Gas Limited.
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Life insurance
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The
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called Raterank that matches drivers with the best options for auto insurance based on the user's unique risk
profile.
If you
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It's been less than two weeks since the dramatic news emerged that Facebook had allowed a
company called Cambridge Analytica to commercially data mine the
profiles of 50 million Facebook users.
For example, a quick API
call for uber.com would return
company social
profiles, office addresses, market verticals, total employees and other data like how much money the
company has raised in the past.
The
company, which burst onto the American political scene in 2012, boasts of its ability to assemble so -
called psychographic
profiles of American voters based on five dominant personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — and to target them with uniquely crafted messages based on their unconscious biases.
The
company, which began working for the Trump campaign in June 2016, promised that its so -
called «psychographic»
profiles could predict the personality and political leanings of every adult in the United States.
In a conference
call with reporters to discuss Facebook's recent moves, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he wasn't sure precisely how many people were affected, but repeated that the sophistication of the scraping led the
company to think that most people's
profiles might have been hoovered up.
Previously, you could search for someone's
profile by typing in their phone number (if it was public), but Facebook has turned this feature off out of fears that
companies, or «malicious actors» as Schroepfer
calls them, could essentially have turned Facebook into a white pages directory.
The
company says it uses a method
called «psychographic»
profiling to understand behavior, and the
company's CEO has boasted that it «
profiled the personality of every adult in the United States of America — 220 million people.»
What a week its been for Facebook, the social media giant has plummeted $ 37bn in value after news broke of a so -
called data grab on more than 50 million
profiles by Cambridge Analytica, a political research
company with links to Trump.
#deletefacebook» has sparked a lot of interest given that it comes at a time when Facebook is facing severe criticism over how it handled its recent data leaks where a
company called Cambridge Analytica harvested
profiles of nearly 50 million users.
The OS - level integration is such that if you receive a
call or a message from a person, you will be able to know more information about the person, what
company they work for, and also their LinkedIn
profile photo.
Flagship of the South Korean
company's new 2017 television line - up — and taking on Samsung's new QLED range in the process — the Signature OLED TV W - Series is being
called Picture - on - Wall design for its extreme low -
profile.
The Seattle spam protection and caller
profile company launched a product Tuesday
called Hiya Business
Profiles, which allows users to do more from within the dialer itself.
SpaceX and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk became the latest high -
profile supporter of the
call to #DeleteFacebook on Friday morning, and the Facebook pages of his two most prominent
companies quickly disappeared.