Sentences with phrase «tightening access to user data»

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The Chinese Communist Party further tightened access to its 751 million Internet users this year by passing new laws that require foreign firms to store data locally and to comply with data surveillance measures.

As part of the steps it's taking to address scrutiny about outsiders» access to user data, Facebook outlined several changes to further tighten its policies.

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

Facebook announced on Wednesday afternoon that it would tighten restrictions on third - party access to user data.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

Beyond the investigation, Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that the company plans to further tighten how developers can access user data, so if, say, you downloaded an app three years ago and haven't touched it in more than three months, developers will no longer have access to your data.

As part of the steps it's taking to address scrutiny about outsiders» access to user data, Facebook outlined several changes to further tighten its policies.