Sentences with phrase «pull app data»

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Poleman and his team pull data from a wide variety of sources — from digital sales to «thumbs ups» in streaming apps to a tactic called «hit predictor.»

You can also always go to your App Privacy Settings and remove permissions for an app to pull more data about you in the futuApp Privacy Settings and remove permissions for an app to pull more data about you in the futuapp to pull more data about you in the future.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

Wylie previously told the committee he thought Kogan had run into problems with the rate at which the GSR App was able to pull data off Facebook's platform — and had contacted engineers at the company at the time (though Wylie also caveated his evidence by saying he did not know whether what he'd been told was true).

While Facebook is wise to scrutinize apps pulling in lots of user data, doing so without warning or even an announcement is how Facebook hurt its relationships with developers circa 2009 as it tried to rapidly reign in spammy virality.

Facebook is now undergoing a deep audit of app developers that pulled a lot of data or that look suspicious, and Schroepfer promises Facebook will make further disclosures if it finds any situations similar to the Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

Facebook was hit with one of its biggest scandals ever when multiple outlets reported that a researcher's app pulled personal information about 270,000 users and 50 million of their friends, then passed that data to Cambridge Analytica.

This week the New York Times and The Observer of London reported that a researcher's app had pulled personal information on about 270,000 Facebook users and 50 million of their friends back in 2015, and then passed that data haul to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebook's policies.

In his testimony to the UK parliament last month, Wylie suggested Facebook might have known about the app as early as July 2014 because he said Kogan had told him he'd been in touch with some Facebook engineers to try to resolve problems with the rate that data could be pulled off the platform by his app.

Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic at Cambridge University, got permission from Facebook to pull data via an app he created — but he reportedly claimed he'd use this data only for academic purposes, not commercial ones.

At a high level, Facebook's API use to allow you to collect information not just on the person connecting to your Facebook App, but you could also pull information from all of that person's friends (so for every person connecting to your app you could get access to data on hundreds or even thousands of peoplApp, but you could also pull information from all of that person's friends (so for every person connecting to your app you could get access to data on hundreds or even thousands of peoplapp you could get access to data on hundreds or even thousands of people).

Their app works with Apple's HealthKit to pull together data from lifelogging devices such as Fitbits and create a picture of an individual's health.

Since apps pull in your Facebook data, that often extends to your phone number if it's listed in your information section.

TECH CRUNCH - Apr 16 - TheComplete.me launched a Facebook app in March that pulls in and analyzes data from Facebook and other social sites to figure out who you might be a good fit with.

Data is pulled a smartphone plugged into the USB port, allowing for seamless, on - screen operation of music apps on your phone.

However, you can gain access to these functions and others by pairing your Internet - connected smartphone via Bluetooth to open up the Entune app functionality, pulling this data from the Internet via Bing.

The What's Next app pulled data from our synced Google account to add events and reminders to the widget and gather information about our most - visited locations and favorite contacts.

Motorola's music app pulls data from the Web, but it's more complicated to set up than Android's own music player.

The contacts app is much more than just contacts, becoming more of a social hub where tapping on a contact will pull in a person's data from connected services.

A new contacts app and calendar functionality will pull your schedule and friends» contact data from social networking sites.

Data, be it status updates on Facebook, or tweets on Twitter are automatically push / pulled into the new app so you can see what your friends are saying.

YOu can also try to pull the OTA update by heading over to Go to Settings — > Apps — > search for Google Services Framework — > Clear data — > Now go to About Tablet — > System Updates — > then hit Check Now button.

Or if you're holding the PlayBook in landscape and need to pull up the keyboard to fill in data — like logging in with your BlackBerry ID to purchase an app in App World — it means you're going to have to actually hide the keyboard before you can tap the Sign In button as the keyboard is covering app in App World — it means you're going to have to actually hide the keyboard before you can tap the Sign In button as the keyboard is covering App World — it means you're going to have to actually hide the keyboard before you can tap the Sign In button as the keyboard is covering it.

Zillow apps for iPhone and Android also pull in data from Google Maps and they search Zillow listings by GPS, voice and text.

The app then pulls your financial data when you log in, ensuring that you always have the most up - to - date data available.

Put simply, Nintendo Account pulls data from a variety of sources: games, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, eShop, Miiverse and Nintendo mobile apps.

Wanting to tap into the power of crowdsourcing, a team of researchers at the UK's University of Surrey have built the Wildsense Tigers app for iPad that pulls tourist photos from Flickr and Instagram as well as biologist's camera trap feeds and uses facial recognition and location data to compile a more complete census of tigers in the wild.

So there really isn't standardization across the industry so then it becomes a question of pulling done data from one app to the next and you're right it can be expensive and it can be tiresome and frustrating.

iOrion is easy — it's available instantly and eliminates the need to log - in to our remote desktop system because I can pull up the necessary data on my iPad through the iOrion App.

You can also always go to your App Privacy Settings and remove permissions for an app to pull more data about you in the futuApp Privacy Settings and remove permissions for an app to pull more data about you in the futuapp to pull more data about you in the future.

Reducing the amount of data apps can pull using Facebook Login without an additional permissions screen to just your name, profile photo, and email address

The data feeds into the iPhone's Health database, so other apps could pull from there and give you these other features, but out of the box it's just a very basic activity tracker.

Apps don't have to delete data they've already pulled.

Apps that need to pull location data fare even worse: the Uber app takes so long to figure out where you are that you're better off walking home before someone notices you staring at your $ 700 Watch and makes a move.

While Facebook didn't explain how many users had their data snagged by the «thisisyourdigitallife» app, the reports say it pulled private info from more than 50 million people even though they didn't know about it or consent — an act that at the time was allowed under Facebook's rules.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

The app pulls in data from Yelp, The New York Times, The Infatuation, New York Magazine, Eater, Urban Spoon, Foursquare, Time Out and Tripadvisor.

(Facebook later ended the ability for quizzes and other apps to pull data on users» friends.)

«Their security protocols were triggered because Kogan's apps were pulling this enormous amount of data, but apparently Kogan told them it was for academic use.

The Obama folks pulled readily accessible information directly from the social graph, they didn't craft any fake apps to harvest your data behind the scenes.

Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge employee who served as a key source for detailed investigative reports published Saturday in The New York Times and The Guardian, said the firm was actually able to pull in data from roughly 50 million profiles by extending its tentacles to the unwitting friends of app users.

Facebook will start by examining apps that had large user bases — 100,000 people or more — and those apps that pulled extensive data about a smaller group of people, said people familiar with Facebook.

Facebook will start by examining apps that had large user bases of around 100,000 people or more and those apps that pulled extensive data about a smaller group of people, according to people familiar with Facebook.

Is it the case that third - party users — app users, or whatever we might call it — can ask for a Facebook user's data and then pull that data off Facebook and bank it?

«There were a lot of apps at the time that were pulling lots of data — including from friend networks — and Facebook wasn't exactly proactive in asking questions or finding out where that data went,» said Christopehr Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower.

Called Google Trips, the iOS and Android app pulls in a combination of data from Google Maps and crowdsourced contributions from other travelers, in order to offer a personalized travel guide that helps you keep track of your day trips, reservations, points of interest, tourist attractions, restaurants and more.

Thanks to Facebook's default privacy settings (which only a small portion of users have changed) the survey app also pulled in the profile data of millions of Facebook friends.

The phone is necessary to pull in the data required to run apps on the platform itself.

Facebook will also no longer enable apps to pull data involving users» political beliefs, religion, friends list, education and work history, reading habits, listening habits, video - watching habits, and a number of others.

Developers can user three inputs to trigger their augmented reality effects: Face Tracker (but not identity or facial recognition), Sensor data, such as the gyroscope and location, and Scripting APIs to pull in data from other apps and respond to user inputs in real time.