"To misuse any data" means using information in a wrong or inappropriate way. It refers to the act of using data for purposes other than what it was intended for, such as sharing it without permission, manipulating it incorrectly, or using it to harm or deceive others.
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However, the project was paused in March, following the revelation that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
misused data from millions of Facebook users.
Additionally, recent problems plaguing Facebook involving political data firm Cambridge Analytica potentially
misusing the data of 50 million of the social network's users underscore people's fears that companies shouldn't be trusted with sensitive data.
Last weekend, the New York Times revealed that data analytics firm Cambridge
Analytica misused data from as many as 50 million Facebook profiles to aid messaging tied to the Trump campaign in the...
«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew
about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement last week.
Losing one's beloved smartphone hurts, and while it's mostly impossible to get them back, security apps allow users to remotely wipe their devices so that the new (and illegal) owner can't
misuse any data on the device.
The tweet comes in the midst of massive investigations into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica about
potentially misused data scraped from millions of Facebook users, and how that information may have been used to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
Facebook has seen its stock fall by billions in the past few days due to news breaking out about a
company misusing data taken from over 50 million Facebook profiles.
Can you tell us a little about the professional learning around data — especially ways you ensure that staff does
not misuse data, e.g., make invalid inferences from trend data?
As for Cambridge Analytica, it is being investigated
for misusing data of tens of millions of Facebook users that was obtained without their permission.
Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump
campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic.
The tweet comes in the midst of massive investigations into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica about potentially
misused data scraped from millions of Facebook users, and how that information may have been used to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
The new data rules come as Facebook is dealing with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data leak, in which the third - party developer
reportedly misused data on 50 million Facebook users in its work to influence U.S. elections and the U.K. Brexit referendum.
Why it matters: Facebook says the data of 87 million people may have been impacted in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and is auditing multiple apps that had potentially
misused data collected through the site.
As Facebook deals with the fallout from a scandal
involving misused data from 50 million user accounts, the social network said it's...
Cambridge Analytica, which
allegedly misused data from millions of Facebook users to help President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in the U.S..
Last week, the New York Times and the Observer of London jointly reported that Cambridge Analytica had
misused data gleaned from the profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users.
I first encountered the inclination to
energetically misuse data a few years ago, while giving a presentation to a group of aspiring superintendents.
Of course there's the strong possibility that Cambridge Analytica and
others misused the data, didn't delete it as promised, performed unsanctioned analyses on it.
It is a fresh example of tighter EU rules for technology giants following reports that a political
consultancy misused the data of 50 million Facebook users in a bid to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
«If any such downstream
entity misused data from Facebook, what is the protection available to the data subject?»
The London - based data analytics
firm misused data from as many as 50 million users, as reports from The Guardian and The New York Times revealed last weekend.
The EU will unveil proposals for a digital tax on US tech giants on Wednesday, bringing yet more turmoil to Facebook after revelations
over misused data of 50 million users shocked the world.
In fact, Facebook was set up to allow third parties to
misuse data without any such difficulty.
In a statement at the time, Facebook promised that it was «carefully investigating this situation» and would require any
company misusing its data to destroy it.
Moving forward, if we remove an app
for misusing data, we will tell everyone who used it.
The new data rules come as Facebook is dealing with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data leak, in which the third - party developer reportedly
misused data on 50 million Facebook users in its work to influence U.S. elections and the U.K. Brexit referendum.
This is minor compared to Facebook's other recent privacy scandals, including that data firm Cambridge
Analytica misused data obtained from an app on the platform, and that the company logs phone calls and text messages for certain users of its Android apps.
«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew
about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement.
Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump
campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic.
Grewal said that the social networking giant learned earlier in the week that London - based Cambridge Analytica, used by campaigns to strategically target personalized political messages, and its parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), had
misused data collected on 270,000 Facebook users.
As Facebook deals with the fallout from a scandal
involving misused data from 50 million user accounts, the social network said it's getting outside help to investigate the matter.
Privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis sarcastically tweeted, «Basically Facebook enabled mass phishing of accounts based on a promise developers would
n't misuse that data.
The probe comes amid reports that data firm Cambridge Analytica
misused the data of around 50 million Facebook users as part of an effort to boost the presidential bid of Donald J. Trump during the 2016 elections.
«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about
misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D - Minn.)
Misusing your data is always wrong, and they should be held accountable.
After news stories broke that a firm named Cambridge Analytica
misused the data of 50 million people, the social network has been on the defensive.
However, 97 percent of people in the survey were concerned businesses might
misuse their data.
OPM said the ability to
misuse the data is currently limited.
In doing so, he joined a growing chorus of tech leaders calling for people to abandon Mr. Zuckerberg's social network after it allowed a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to obtain and
misuse data on 50 million users.
In addition to giving users a quick way to check if their information was scraped by the analytics firm, the site has launched a data abuse bounty program to report app developers who may be
misusing data.
It is simply not unreasonable to worry about how our government will use or
misuse the data it collects.
Cambridge Analytica is defending itself from charges that
it misused data illicitly obtained from Facebook users.
Facebook confirmed in August 2016 that data from Kogan's app collected and
misused data from the company and that Facebook was taking efforts to delete it.
The editor of the British Medical Journal accused Hunt of «
misusing data to mislead the public».
Carolyn Everson, Facebook's vice president of marketing, says that the company is «outraged and beyond disturbed» by the bombshell reports this weekend that firm Cambridge Analytica
misused the data of 50 million people.