Sentences with phrase «someone snooping»

The question for most consumers is: in order to successfully do this, is Instagram snooping into their conversations to create targeted ads?

On how easily the government can snoop: «If I target for example an email address, under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it.

The move is yet another example of how Instagram has started snooping on user conversations to create targeted ads.

What's more, they use ad trackers to snoop on the behavior of their users, in most cases without telling them.

I found out a year later by Facebook snooping (he was still in contact with her and she gave me bad vibes).

Four to six digits stand between most iPhone users» personal data and the prying eyes of snoops, criminals, and investigators.

The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.

The nosy iPhone app that snoops your Twitter and Facebook circles for local illness reports is nothing to sneeze at.

Such talk once seemed paranoid, but in light of Edward Snowden's allegations that intelligence agencies used back doors to snoop on people and governments, it's hard to dismiss it as such anymore.

Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.

Given the global nature of the world's telecommunications infrastructure, that capability could easily allow the agency to continue its snooping on just about anyone.

(That is, to accounts that are public — you don't want to be a snoop.)

The specific model was shrouded in mystery for decades, until legions of internet snoops scrutinised 10 seconds of fast - paced footage and discovered it to be the Professional 200M.

Since co-founding the Redwood Shores, Calif. - based Oracle in 1977, Ellison's antics, which have included everything from hiring a private investigator to snoop through Microsoft's garbage to unceremoniously punting a series of would - be successors to his throne, have earned him the distinction of Silicon Valley's consummate meanie.

In addition, there were what sports analysts would call «off - the - field» problems like a 2006 «pretexting» scandal in which HP hired private detectives to snoop on reporters in hopes of ferreting out corporate leakers.

In one, its reporters acknowledged using the terminal to snoop on customers; in the second, the news division was accused of canceling an article about a Chinese billionaire to avoid antagonizing authorities, a charge the company disputes.

It's questionable whether consumers and governments in other countries are familiar with the finer points of PIPEDA, which means even just the perception of overreaching data - snooping capabilities could be enough to instill a chill.

Although it's been more than two years since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's data snooping, U.S. officials and tech executives are still grappling with balancing national security and privacy.

Many started tightening their security to circumvent government snooping.

The various scandals embroiling the White House, from the IRS probes to the Internet and phone snooping programs, have Republicans in a blood - thirsty mood and eager to push the knife deeper into the Obama Administration's side.

Stephenson, like many entrepreneurs, considers himself a world - class snoop; he fishes out ideas and then sends them on for refining.

Of course, one side's snooping is another side's protection.

A new day where you sneaky women no longer can snoop.»

But if foreign consumers, and especially businesses, believe data held with those companies is vulnerable to snooping, Kroes thinks they could quickly lose their edge in an industry estimated by research company Gartner Inc. to be worth more than $ 135 billion a year.

A company that just settled data «snooping» charges with New Jersey made only $ 2,500 for selling 400,000 individuals» data — 16 cents a person.»

That means no one — not your ISP, Google or the government — can snoop on what you're doing.

Welcome to the brave new world of consumer snooping.

But there's a lot more to big data than snooping and up - selling.

The Geek Squad has been described by Best Buy leadership as a key part of the chain's survival as a retailer in the age of Amazon, and public awareness that the friendly mobile IT support team could also be FBI snoops would be nothing short of devastating to that strategy.

That allegation last week provoked outrage far beyond previous revelations of snooping on celebrities, politicians and top athletes, and knocked billions off the value of News Corp..

Cyber-security experts say businesses of all sizes can be vulnerable to attacks and hackers can manoeuvre their way into any site if the proper controls aren't in place to detect their snooping.

The non-profit group behind the browser is planning a significant change to protect users from hackers and snooping governments.

But he acknowledges the fight to ensure people's privacy from government snooping won't get any easier under Trump.

Uber is hiring a former IBM chief privacy officer to review the company's practices after it was reported the company may have violated its privacy policy by snooping on customer data.

Eric Knorr says you need to protect yourself from the coming cloud crackup, and Lucas Mearian suggests ways to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data.

On January 28, 2014 — European Data Protection Day (yes, it's been celebrated in Europe since 2006)-- EU vice president and justice commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech that European citizens were «in shock» over the extent of the National Security Agency snooping.

The Signal Protocol is designed to protect messages and online communications against snooping, and it's already used in a number of encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and more, in addition to Signal Messenger.

«We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links,» Mr. Drummond said in a statement.

Journalists who used to work at Bloomberg say they typically made use of the feature to lightheartedly snoop on each other and some famous customers.

Some of its largest customers have publicly accused the firm's journalists of snooping on their usage of Bloomberg terminals, the firm's wildly profitable information service for investors.

Consider it saavy snooping — «market research» sounds plain ole boring!

As increasing amounts of our lives have become public through our digital personas, lenders and credit agencies have taken to snooping on our public profiles for any scrap of information they deem necessary.

They use False Discovery Rate (FDR) to control for data snooping bias, such that 90 % of the equally weighted best rules in FDR - corrected portfolios significantly outperform the benchmark.

Some analysts fail to account for data snooping bias in their analyses of market timing indicators.

In their March 2018 paper entitled «Pairs Trading, Technical Analysis and Data Snooping: Mean Reversion vs Momentum», Ioannis Psaradellis, Jason Laws, Athanasios Pantelous and Georgios Sermpinis test a variety of technical trading rules for long - short trading of 15 commodity futures, equity indexes and currency pairs (all versus the U.S. dollar) frequently used on trading websites or offered by financial market firms.

Are technical rules applied to pairs trading attractive after correcting for data snooping bias?

Schiff quotes a lengthy passage from the actual application the FBI sent to the FISA court asking for permission to snoop on Page.

But Stamos» biggest issues with Yahoo likely came down to government snooping.

Conspiracy theories about it snooping on people through its microphone, and confusion about it collecting SMS and call log history likely pushed Facebook to give people details about what data it's slurping up.

They employ a test methodology designed to account for data snooping in identifying reliably profitable trading rules.