Sentences with phrase «use by millions of users»

For the technology it is essential to be secure, scalable and flexible for use by millions of users.

Adobe Digital Editions is used by millions of users all over the world that buy eBooks from online stores and want to send them to their device.

Ares then shot back that My Knox is compatible only with the newest Samsung devices, leaving older devices, such as 2013's Samsung Galaxy 4, still used by millions of users locked into two - year service contracts, vulnerable to attack.

With test builds of the operating system returning GSODs instead of BSODs, it would be much easier to recognize that the error is happening on a Windows 10 Insider Preview build, and not on a version that is being used by millions of users all over the world.

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Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by...

Although Twitter is used by millions of people, its user base has stopped growing and the company has had trouble making money.

Nguyen, who had a video game background, wasn't well - versed in creating big engineering infrastructures like those used by Facebook or Google that are able (for the most part) to accommodate millions of users simultaneously.

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The original stories in the Guardian and the New York Times reported that in 2014 more than 50 million Facebook users had their information harvested for use by Cambridge Analytica, but in its blog post Wednesday, Facebook clarified that the actual number of affected users is much higher.

In March, Facebook revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a political marketing firm used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign, had improperly obtained the personal information of 87 million users.

These articles revealed how Cambridge Analytica obtained access to the personal details and lifestyle preferences of over 50 million users by using a team of academics to gather the data under the guise of scientific research [NY Times, The Guardian].

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump.

But I believe it is almost certain that the number of Facebook users whose data was compromised through routes similar to that used by Kogan is much greater than 87 million; and that both Cambridge Analytica and other unconnected companies and campaigns were involved in these activities.

The data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed process.

Over the weekend, the news broke that Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, had used the Facebook data of more than 50 million people collected by Kogan to micro-target users with campaign advertising.

Facebook has acknowledged that it permitted a quiz application developed by researcher Aleksandr Kogan, and used by roughly 270,000 people, to acquire information from upwards of 80 million users.

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.

Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook (FB.O) Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that it has opened an investigation of Facebook following reports that a data analysis firm used by the Trump campaign improperly accessed the names, «likes» and other personal information from at least 30 million users on the social site.

In March, allegations surfaced that Cambridge Analytica, hired by Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, improperly used data of 87 million Facebook users.

However, by using a large - scale dataset of 73 million tweets collected from June 1 to September 1, 2016, Makse and his associates are able to investigate the temporal social networks formed by the interactions among Twitter users.

Zoosk acquired users quickly by tying itself to Facebook and the hundreds of millions of users who already used the ubiquitous social networking site to post personal information and photos.

SAN FRANCISCO — Of all the romances sparked by online dating site OkCupid, the one that's lasted the longest is between its founders and the endless data provided by the over one million users that use the site each day.

In a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, there are two central findings that illustrate how important the internet has become for those seeking romance in 21st Century America: First, among the relatively small and active cohort of 10 million internet users who say they are currently single and looking for romantic partners, 74 % say they have used the internet in one way or another to further their romantic interests.

suitable partners using new tools that draw upon data provided by thousands, or millions, of users.

I came up with this number by adding Plenty of Fish's 2 million active users with 2.5 million US paid subscribers, and then adding in an extra million singles for all of the other free dating sites that people use.

Facebook is free to use, accessed by millions of users every day, and easy to use, which makes it the ideal tool for eLearning professionals.

Nevertheless, it is unlikely Microsoft will «go under» with over 1.2 billion people using Microsoft Office globally, with over 400 million active users of using Outlook.com, with over 40 % of Azure revenues coming from start - ups and independent software vendors, with its aim of going from 200 million devices running Windows 10 to 1 billion by 2018, and with over 340 million downloads of Office being done on iPhones, iPads and Android devices worldwide [xvi].

Litmos, for example, has an LMS that is in use by over five million users in all corners of the globe.

Asymco data indicates that there are now some 175 million smartphone users in the U.S. and that by the end of 2020 nearly 100 % of people older than 13 will be using a smartphone.

The XO3 tablet device designed by Yves Behar has been the outcome of Marvell Semiconductor Inc. and non-profit organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC), whose previous products has already made it to 42 countries and is used by 2.4 million users worldwide.

According to a statement from Amazon on the new features, this update will allow users of the Kindle app to access the read aloud over 1.8 million titles available in the Kindle Store using Apple's VoiceOver technology, navigate within their libraries or books using consistent title, menu and button names or navigate directly to a specific page within a book, read character - by - character, word - by - word, line - by - line, or continuously, as well as move forward or backward in the text, add or delete notes, bookmarks, and highlights, look up words in the dictionary and Wikipedia, and much more.

Appcelerator is the leading enterprise - grade, cross-platform development solution on the market today, with over 1.5 million developers using its software to power over 25,000 cloud - connected mobile, desktop, and web applications used by tens of millions of users every day.

Design simplicity, efficient use, the choice of millions of users: * Multiple - line stacks, hundreds of thousands of novel / newspaper / magazines free read (Note: All stacks are built by third parties) * depth optimization of novel to read txt * visual experience set, all the background color to support several real - time visibility * Page mode * Smart layout, to create the most comfortable reading experience of paper flip effect * real * support for voice input, attack with half times * strong local book file Find (supports wildcards to retrieve and import), a full range of book content search (support regular expression) * free copy like text, and can be sent to microblogging — Format: TXT, HTML, EPUB, UMD, OPDS Official Website: http://anyview.net official micro-Bo: http://t.sina.com.cn/3637250 official QQ group: 161 462 668 readers, e-books

Of course, PayPal doesn't have a smartphone platform or handsets to offer, but if it can convert its desktop users to mobile users, it could create a mobile - payment platform used by 100 million people.

Swype Keyboard was used by tens of millions of Android users, but all good things must come to an end...

Look at some of the features you get in this app: * Adorable graphics and easy to use interface * Multilingual language learning tool for native English speaking users * Formatted in a proven most effective way to learn and practice a second language * Each paragraph of story is presented in English with Spanish or Chinese subtitles * Optional voice read along with text by native Spanish or Chinese speaker * Automatic or manual page turn with gesture support * Music by well known songwriter, NienShen Ma * Facebook Connect * Sync with Q.L.L. (Quick Language Learning) website * More than half a million users have downloaded the language learning picture books already!

This is where a website is closed down due to simulated, simultaneous use by millions or even billions of users.

It had become apparent to FICO that the price for discouraging piggybacking abuse by a relative few would be the denial of honestly - earned credit history for millions of legitimate authorized users — most often the spouses of primary cardholders — who use and manage these accounts no differently than those in the primary role.

Facebook, a social media platform used by millions of people around the world is accused of misusing, selling user data.

Once a product is developed, it can be used by millions of people and the marginal cost to serve each additional user is effectively $ 0.

The Facebook data scandal (reports that Cambridge Analytica, a firm used by the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, scraped Facebook data for millions of users without their knowledge or permission) that erupted in mid-March and prompted user outrage, including a hashtag #deletefacebook, continues to grow.

The contraception is injected every three months and is used by approximately 1.2 million in this country - that's 3.2 % of contraception users, reports Guttmacher institute.

Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by President Donald Trump's 2016 US election campaign, has hurt the shares of the world's biggest social network and prompted multiple official investigations in the United States and Europe.

Facebook today revealed that as many as 87 million users, most of them in the US but at least 1 million in the UK, may have had their information improperly obtained and used by the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica.