The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly
gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.
(Reuters)- British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may have improperly
gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users, according to a Channel 4 television report.
Facebook has come under fire after reports that conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica
gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles before the 2016 presidential election.
And we can't forget Facebook: the social media giant recently came under fire over its privacy practices in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica
improperly gained access to data from some 87 million user profiles, which is used to target political ads and influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
The social network has said political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly
gained access to data about up to 87 million of its users.
The research firm with ties to Donald Trump and his presidential campaign
allegedly gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles collected by Aleksandr Kogan through a psychology test quiz.
But Mr. Collins, who is chairman of the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee, said he was concerned that Facebook might
gain access to data before the information commissioner did.
Experts say the practice of
gaining access to data stored in large computers — which involves the use of a microcomputer, telephone lines, and attachments called «modems» that translate computer pulses into current that can travel through telephone lines to other computers — has resulted in as much as $ 1 billion in damage annually and serious breaches of privacy.
Facebook has suggested that, at the time
Kogan gained access to the data of 270,000 users, Facebook's settings allowed third parties to harvest everything from users and their friends, and thus there was no violation of the decree.
Jonathan Albright, a research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, said that while he welcomed Zuckerberg's explanation of how Cambridge Analytica
gained access to the data in question, he was disappointed that the CEO did not address why Facebook enabled so much third - party access to its users» personal information for so many years.
Attackers gained access to the data on November 26 through an improperly secured mobile app that lets patients share and store electronic health records, according to Quest (dgx).
Rather, it was an unethical action by a researcher,
who gained access to the data legitimately but violated the terms of access by transferring it to third parties, as well as by Cambridge, which allegedly lied when, in 2015, it told Facebook it had deleted all copies of the data.
Cambridge Analytica has maintained since Friday, when Facebook first said it was suspending the research firm from its platform, that it did
not gain access to data from Kogan and that the Facebook data it did gain access to was not used for the Trump campaign.
She seemed to be speaking directly to Smith, who in August 2013 tried to subpoena McCarthy in order to
gain access to the data behind the EPA's air quality standards.
HGSE Professor Thomas Kane, faculty director for CEPR, stressed how social science research in education has changed, adding the need for graduate students to develop personal relationships and trust to
gain access to data inside school districts and state agencies.
So you wish us to believe that in recent years Jones has actually been trying to help
Steve gain access to the data — and that he wanted to help so badly that he violated all those confidentiality agreements by leaving the data on an FTP server?
According to sources at the University of Victoria, two people claiming to be network computer technicians presented themselves at the headquarters of the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis and tried to
gain access to the data servers.
If you need to collect personal information or financial records from your clients or employees for any reason, you may be liable for damages in the event that an unauthorized
party gains access to this data.
Zuckerberg says the data company was able to do so with the help of Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher who created a personality quiz app in 2013 to
furtively gain access to the data of tens of millions of users and their friends.
His apology comes in the wake of allegations that British firm Cambridge Analytica
illegally gained access to data of 50 million Facebook users to manipulate the outcome of the US Presidential Elections in 2016.
Hackers
gain access to data through a company's server or emails and either threaten to disclose it - known as data ransoming - or make it inaccessible with ransomware, a type of malware that can quickly infiltrate and...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained calm under pressure during five hours of questioning by U.S. senators about a series of recent crises culminating with the latest involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that
gained access to data about up to 87 million Facebook users.
As we understand it now, the data mining and analytics company, based out of London,
gained access to data on as many as 50 million Facebook profiles thanks to generous data - sharing policies Facebook app developers enjoyed back in 2014.
But Mr. Collins, who is chairman of the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee, said he was concerned that Facebook might
gain access to data before the information commissioner did.
Affecting handsets running BlackBerry Device Software version 6.0 or higher, the exploit could allow an attacker to
gain access to data stored on the media card or in the media storage area built into BlackBerry devices.
British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may have
improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users, according to a Channel 4 television report.
Conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica
gained access to data from 50 million Facebook profiles before the 2016 presidential election, as alleged by Christopher Wylie in a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times.
Those include blocking app developers from
gaining access to the data of users who have been inactive for three months, restricting the ability of users to inadvertently share information about others in their networks and adopting stricter permissions guidelines and search features.
It's an increasingly common form of extortion: hackers
gain access to your data, encrypt it, and demand ransom for the key.
The laws, which take effect on May 25, require companies to explain how they plan to use people's personal information in simple, unambiguous language and detail what other entities will
gain access to that data.
Identity thieves are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to
gain access to your data.