Sentences with phrase «trove of your personal information»

We learned last weekend that a trove of personal information from 50 million people — one in three U.S. Facebook users — was harvested for an influence and propaganda operation led by Cambridge Analytica, a company later used by the Trump campaign.

And then Katherine Archuleta, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was forced to resign last month after an attack by a group of hackers in China made off with a massive trove of personal information on federal employees, including many key intelligence operatives.

Facebook became one of the world's most valuable companies by giving advertisers the ability to target its 2 billion - plus users based on a vast trove of personal information, from where they live to what movies they like.

Crooks» new target: your rewards points — Cyberthieves are plundering easy - to - hack loyalty program websites, grabbing your rewards points and a treasure trove of personal information that can put your identity at risk... (See Rewards theft)

European Union residents seeking access to their entire troves of personal information under privacy law suggest (and some have found) this includes items marked for deletion.

But preventing data - hungry developers from exploiting Facebook's treasure trove of personal information remained challenging.

What happened with Cambridge Analytica wasn't technically a data breach, since this trove of personal information wasn't stolen from Facebook's servers.

Cook said Wednesday in an interview with tech news site Recode and MSNBC that Apple is «not going to traffic in your personal life,» a dig at rival companies that collect and share vast troves of personal information that he called «an invasion of privacy.»

Resumes are a treasure trove of personal information.

The treasure trove of personal information that has collected on social media is irresistible.

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The researchers combed through a trove of genetic data from thousands of people who submitted their information to the personal genomics company 23andMe.

Among the info stolen was trove of data including the names, emails, and phone numbers for 50 million riders globally, as well as the personal information of 7 million drivers.

On the website, you log in, unwittingly providing criminals access to a trove of personal data, including your Social Security number, bank account information, address and salary.

Ashley Madison, a website that helps millions of married people cheat on their spouses, has lost a trove of personal and confidential information to hackers who are threatening to release the data of more than 37 million users.

A security expert believes the DNC's data breach, which released an embarrassing trove of emails as well as personal donor information, could become much larger.

Smartphones store a treasure trove of personal and sensitive data, such as emails and financial information.

The article in Nature says that the database and the samples can not be sold, but it remains to be seen what will happen with this trove of incredibly valuable and deeply sensitive personal information.

The large number of victims, many of whom hold security clearances, combined with the personal nature of the information stolen gives the threat actor a treasure trove of data which can be used for blackmail and espionage efforts.

But the scrutiny over the company's vast trove of personal data — following a report that a political consulting firm had improperly obtained information of 50 million users — is taking direct aim at that lucrative formula.

Europe has strict privacy protections that limit the use of personal information, but America is more lightly regulated, allowing the sale of huge troves of consumer data to any company or candidate who can afford them.

The latest scandal involving Facebook — a data analytics firm that worked for President Trump's campaign and allegedly obtained information on 50 million Facebook users — is a reminder that the social network used to share photos with friends and family also holds a treasure trove of personal data.