Sentences with phrase «user location data»

The automatic collection of user location data from smartphones by tech companies, and the ability of law enforcement to access it via warrants will be discussed in Friday's AppleInsider podcast, with criminal defense attorney and former Apple employee T. Greg Doucette explaining how a recent report into the requests by Raleigh, N.C. police came about in the first place.

The EFF [Electronic Freedom Foundation] does a good job reiterating how Microsoft used malware-esque tactics to get users to upgrade, then once installed, Windows 10 collects user location data, text input, voice input, touch input, web browsing history, and general computing telemetry data, including which programs you run and for how long — which would be arguably less of an issue if you had full control over how much of this data was collected and funneled back to the Redmond mothership.

Back in 2011, Google execs were e-maling back and forth about the value of user location data, strategizing on how to grow the mound of information the company could collect around customers» real - life interactions.

Appthority told Inc. that this code could track the user location data of Uber users in U.S. and other parts of the world outside of China.

Not exact matches

Not only is this a great way of backing up data, but it also allows users to access the files remotely from any location in the world.

It uses machine learning and cross-references 30 other data sets — from maps to triangulate users» locations, to patent data, to stocks» movement — to identify tweets and trends with impact, based on unusual patterns and «clusters» of similar tweets.

The feature uses real - time location data to match users as they cross paths in real life.

To promote Poland's LOT Airlines over Christmas, Facebook used real - time flight - tracking data, Google Maps and its own ad - scheduling software so that when a LOT plane passed over a particular city, users in that location would see a sponsored post reminding them to share a kiss under the mistletoe.

With that said, those still aren't the cities these young adults are currently moving to, says LinkedIn, which determines these trends by looking at data from its users, including the year they graduated from college and the locations of the jobs on their profiles.

Now, thanks to that data, users can use auto - generated Geofilters when they're around a store's location.

For instance, any iOS app that wishes to collect someone's location data must first ask for their permission, and users are free to change their privacy settings whenever they wish.

The data used to serve the ads was gleaned from user behavior on apps and via IP addresses, information that is regularly harvested by data brokers who repackage it to marketing firms who use it to serve ads with laser - like precision based on interest, location, age and many other markers.

«We think that monetization over time will take its course because on mobile you can provide more targeted ads to users because of location - based data and other personal data that we can collect.

«Really, it comes down to quality, accurate data that covers many, many, many different locations,» he says, pointing out that they can forecast within a one - kilometre radius of a user's location, a smaller surface area — and therefore more useful — than the one - mile radius standard in the U.S..

They collect and measure user screen engagement, texting habits, phone logs, sleep app data, and location services.

By combining the highly specific locational data that's available from consumers searching on mobile, alongside Google's already in - progress goal of customizing results by location for all users, positioning your brand to those who are physically near you will become crucial in 2017.

The combined power of financial data, location information, and internet usage gives Bell a remarkably detailed profile of its users.

Marble's cloud - based security client application integrates real - time intelligence derived from machine data, as well as mobile user and device attributes like location, installed apps and network connection data, to apply dynamic risk scores to each device.

Moovel, however, offers its public transit partners important data around its users» trips, helping those partners see popular locations for pickups and drop - offs.

The number of people who had messages taken is a small portion of the estimated 87 million users whose data was exposed, but it represents a much more intrusive collection than the page likes, birthdays, locations, and personality traits and so forth that were taken from other profiles.

More than one million users have agreed to leave location sharing on all the time so Foursquare can track and analyze their movements; through a partnership with Nielsen, that data is then being connected to consumers» purchasing data, so that marketers can understand how ads people see directly relate to purchases they make.

Like Facebook, Google collects vast amount of data on users — including their YouTube choices, internet searches and location history — to target advertisements.

Data that could be easily accessed from friends included names of users, their education and work histories, birthdays, likes, locations, photos, relationship statuses, and religious and political affiliations.

Advertisers could start pairing their own web - tracking data (from «cookies» that follow users online) with potent Google information including search queries, location history, phone numbers and credit card information.

Structured data and RDFa, like schema.org, can help signify your exact location and search area so that Google can better serve users in your area your menu or contact information.

However, as more and more searchers let implicit data, like their IP address, dictate their location, it's increasingly important for websites to be prepared to better geographically target their users.

Issued in May 2011, it covers a computer system comprising a data store containing a decision tree that is constructed to produce a predicted geographic location for an IP address associated with a user; and a computing device that obtains a first set of sample data including IP addresses and user profile information; trains the decision tree with the first set of sample data; obtains a second set of sample data including geographic location information correlated with an IP address; prunes the trained decision tree with the second set of data; and then qualifies the decision tree with a third set of sample data to assign to each leaf node a confidence score indicating the degree of accuracy of a predicted geographic location.

Indeed, Twitter does not grant advertisers access to direct - messaging data, and users have to opt in to make their locations public on the platform.

Foursquare's data scientists examined the foot traffic of a panel of U.S. users who have been active on the Foursquare City Guide or Foursquare Swarm apps (as well as partner apps) for at least the past year, have opted - in to provide background location awareness, and have visited at least one of the analyzed chains within the research time frame (January 2017 - December 2017).

«Facebook made it easy for app developers to collect users» friends» data,» said Nick Soman, an entrepreneur who collected the locations of Facebook users» friends to enhance his social app LikeBright, which no longer exists.

Designed and built by Relevant Mobile, a trailblazer in developing customized mobile apps and mobile - centric data - capturing solutions exclusively for the restaurant industry, the new app is now available for download by Android and iOS users for all Firehouse Subs locations in the U.S.

While the new policy doesn't eliminate users» ability to set up different accounts under different names, Google intends to use data such as search history, whom you contact most frequently and your location to serve you better without regard for the partitions you may have created.

Google recently booted 20 apps from Android phones and its app store because the apps could — without the user's knowledge — record with the microphone, monitor a phone's location, take photos, and then extract the data.

It asks that if a law - enforcement agency wants to look at private user data — whether e-mails, documents or cell - phone location information — that agency should have to obtain a warrant.

«By combining these data with information from the mobile device's location services (e.g., GPS), the application creates a list of species the user can expect to encounter.

By tracking the location data of Baidu's hundreds of millions of daily users, they could identify the places with the heaviest internet traffic.

Today's smartphones can collect data such as location, speech patterns, and motion without any active input from the user.

The firm's Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of people around offices and shops as a proxy measurement for employment and consumption activity.

One way to do this could be by hitting users with targeted advertising based on data such as their current location.

Once these algorithms have each been applied in a process that takes just seconds, the data is passed on to another piece of software called the decision module, which synthesizes it in an instant and issues an alert to users, including the earthquake's magnitude, location and expected degree of shaking (weak, moderate, strong or very strong).

Knowledge about usage of the spectrum data and about the user's location is essential to build any communication protocol and service.

«But what end users really care about is how severe the ground shaking will be at their location, so we also are now testing algorithms that could provide these data,» Kohler said.

According to the authors, they define data control as consisting of two parts: data withdrawal, which is the ability to withdraw data and require a service provider to stop using or storing the user's information; and data mobility, which is the ability to move data to a new location without being locked into a particular provider.

The new technology will enable users to access centimeter - level accuracy location data through their mobile phones and wearable technologies, without increasing the demand for processing power.

Such information can include certain location data pertaining to a user, if such information is made available from GPS, Wi - FI, or cell phone tower data in accordance with whatever settings may allow for the collection of such data in the user's web browser or cell phone.

Instead, individual computers would be able to copy and republish content on receipt, providing other users with the option to access data, or fragments of data, from a wide range of locations rather than the source itself.

In a nutshell, the Toolbox takes in raw climatological, meteorological and hydrological information and translates them into a series of easy - to - navigate tools and interactive maps that allow users to visualize data for their location.

For computer and data scientists who work on dating apps, that translates roughly into helping users find love, using mathematical reasoning to identify prospective matches, and asking users to input location, biographic, demographic and psychographic information.

9NEWS - Jan 12 - A study, conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business, discovered that 21 of 90 dating sites did not properly remove location data from photos uploaded by their users.

BUSINESS INSIDER - June 1 - HotOrNot, the dating site that was sold to Badoo for $ 20M, uses location - based data to show users the most attractive people around them.