Sentences with phrase «taken by the millions of users»
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Records reviewed by The Times show that roughly 300,000 people took the survey, but because of the access to friends» information allowed at the time, Facebook said that as many as 87 million users could have been affected.
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Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.
Snapchat, the social messaging app that has taken American teens by storm, has a strong base of 26 million users, the rapt attention of a young core audience, and is facilitating billions of shares per day.
It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
Whitney Engeran - Cordova, the Senior Director of the Public Health Division for AIDS Healthcare Foundation said: «When other popular mobile dating apps were firing off legal notices or moving to shut down our STD prevention messaging in a knee - jerk reaction to our billboards, SCRUFF is to be commended for taking the more prudent approach by acknowledging the importance of encouraging STD prevention and awareness to their millions of users.»
Wattpad Stories, which goes live at 10 am ET, takes an in - depth look at people whose lives have been transformed by the power of writing and storytelling, and by the ability to instantly share that creative work with an audience of over 20 million users.
By taking advantage of some 70 million messaging app users in Japan, the company «can promote what manga titles are free to read now within Line's services,» said Tomoyoshi Murata, manager of Line Manga's editorial team.
With more than 13 million downloads of Adobe Digital Editions, a free software application for acquiring, managing and reading ebooks, users can transfer their digital content to their netbooks and desktops, and by taking advantage of a growing number of mobile applications, users can also consume ebooks from Google eBooks on tablets like the iPad.
Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.
Former employees accuse the firm, owned by the conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and previously headed by Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon, of taking advantage of ill - gotten data belonging to millions of unwitting Facebook users.
The fines for breaking the consent decree are $ 40,000 per violation, which could add up to billions of dollars if the estimated 50 million users whose data was taken by Cambridge were taken into account.
Cambridge Analytica got its hands on millions of people's Facebook likes in 2014 by getting an academic, Aleksander Kogan, to design an app with a personality test that hoovered up data from the 250,000 or so Facebook users that took it, as well as from their millions of friends.
Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
At the weekend Mr Zuckerberg took out full - page advertisements in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise, adding the company could have done more to stop millions of users having their data exploited by Cambridge Analytica.
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While about 270,000 people gave the app permission to access their data, the app took things a step farther by obtaining information from their friends lists, compromising the privacy of millions of users who did not agree to the app's terms.
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