Sentences with phrase «researcher for academic purposes»

The Facebook data had been obtained by a researcher for academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook officials said last week.

At the time, the company had access to Facebook data that had been obtained by a researcher for academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook executives said last week.

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Gomez, now 29, has maintained that he acted in «good faith, in gratitude for all the support I had received from other researchers in Colombia and other countries, and voluntarily for academic purposes and non-profit,» and that he «never imagined that this activity could be considered a crime.»

Facebook has said that people who took the quiz were told that their data would be used only for academic purposes, claiming that it and its users were misled by Cambridge Analytica and the researcher it hired, Aleksandr Kogan, a 28 - year - old Russian - American academic.

The researcher hired by Cambridge Analytica, Alexandr Kogan, told Facebook and his app's users that he was collecting information for academic purposes, not for a political data firm owned by a wealthy conservative.

The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for academic purposes, not political ones.

He says that many academic researchers use homegrown ELNs, adapting general - purpose word - processing software for note - taking, or using collaborative tools such as Evernote or Microsoft OneNote.

Researchers found that social media use varied when students were using it specifically for academic purposes like sharing course information with peers or tracking down academic information.

Researchers and academics need to be better about how we disseminate our work and engage the public and make sure that the research we conduct is not for internal purposes only.

For example, authors of academic research may opt for a watermark rather than encryption, because many researchers may prefer to print their downloaded documents for scientific purposFor example, authors of academic research may opt for a watermark rather than encryption, because many researchers may prefer to print their downloaded documents for scientific purposfor a watermark rather than encryption, because many researchers may prefer to print their downloaded documents for scientific purposfor scientific purposes.

Licenses can be distributed to those with close family members in Cuba, and to journalists, academic researchers, and governmental officials and members of international governmental organization traveling to Cuba for the purpose of conducting business.

Facebook says it initially gave out the data to a researcher who claimed it would be used only for academic purposes.

Cambridge Analytica bought the data from a researcher who told Facebook he was collecting it for academic purposes, according to the Times.

What is surprising is that an academic researcher could so flagrantly violate the spirit and the terms of the data - sharing policies Facebook has in place by taking that data and giving it to a firm that was never authorized to have it in the first place for the purposes of political targeting.

Cambridge paid to acquire the personal information through an outside researcher who, Facebook says, claimed to be collecting it for academic purposes.

While 270,000 users had authorized an academic to use their data for research purposes, according to reports, the researcher allegedly violated privacy rules when he handed the data off to Cambridge Analytica.

But instances where trust has been betrayed by an academic — even if it's the case that data used for university research purposes wasn't caught in the crossfire — will have a negative impact on whether participants will continue to trust researchers.

In 2014, a researcher collected the data through an app that asked users to take a personality test for academic research purposes.