As a result, participants unknowingly gave
the researchers access to the profiles of their Facebook friends, allowing them to collect data from millions more users.
But participants unknowingly gave
researchers access to the profiles of their Facebook friends, allowing them to collect data from millions of more users.
However, the app gave
researchers access to the profiles of participants» Facebook friends, allowing them to collect data from millions more users.
Not exact matches
The company said it was «building a way» for people
to know if their data was
accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological -
profiling quiz app that
researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people
to take part in.
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.
The lab is also working with the Breast Oncology Program at UCSF
to make this data part of an adaptive clinical trial called I - SPY, which lets
researchers identify the most effective therapies based on patient molecular
profiling, and is collaborating with members of the UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ICHS)
to put these and other public data into a centralized database that clinicians can
access through an app
to help make the most appropriate treatment decisions.
a publically available portal for
researchers in life sciences and provides
access to protein
profiling data in 46 normal tissues, 20 cancer tissues, 46 cell lines and on a subcellular level.
The company said it was «building a way» for people
to know if their data was
accessed by «This Is Your Digital Life,» the psychological -
profiling quiz app that
researcher Aleksandr Kogan created and paid about 270,000 people
to take part in.
Some executives have pointed out that the mechanism that until a few years ago allowed a
researcher with 270,000 app downloads
to have
access to 50 million
profiles wasn't exactly a secret, and, besides, Facebook users nominally agreed
to the sharing of these
profiles so that apps would perform better.
Even though a little over 270,000 users took the quiz, because they gave
access to more than just their own information,
researchers were able
to obtain data from 50 million user
profiles.