Sentences with phrase «user profile information»

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada agreed with PIAC, finding that Nexopia's default privacy settings of sharing all user profile information with the whole internet as a default setting do not properly consider the reasonable expectations of its users under the age of 18.

LinkedIn Intro, a mobile feature, integrates with people's iPhone Mail apps to display user profile information.

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.

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It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.

The updated inbox allows brands to look into the publicly available profile information of users and assess their previous interactions.

Once brands have the trust of their customers, and their information, they can employ user - generated profile platforms, like autoGraph, to gain emotionally intelligent insights and customer opt - in solutions.

«We don't build any user profiles,» Federighi said about the information that online companies typically collect about user activity, including the sites they visit and what they search for.

Intro is a new service integrated into the iPhone Mail app that allows users to see LinkedIn profile information when receiving emails.

Use of Name and Likeness: By posting User Content on the online services, you consent to the recording, use and reuse by NBCUniversal, its licensees, successors and assigns, of your voice, actions, likeness, name, appearance, profile photograph, performance, biographical material, and any other identifying information, including, without limitation, any information contained in your User Content (collectively, «Personal Elements»), as used, edited, altered, fictionalized or modified by NBCUniversal, in its sole discretion, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, throughout the world, in perpetuity, including, without limitation, in and in connection with NBCUniversal, or related Sites or online services, in and in connection with any television programs and other productions, and in and in connection with advertising, promotion and publicity.

ORIGINAL REQUEST: Account / wallet / vault registration records for each account / wallet / vault owned or controlled by the user during the period stated above including, but not limited to, complete user profile, history of changes to user profile from account inception, complete user preferences, complete user security settings and history (including confirmed devices and account activity), complete user payment methods, and any other information related to the funding sources for the account / wallet / vault, regardless of date.

So instead of seeing a bland email signature from Jane Doe, users are able to view Jane's profile picture, job title, education history and mutual contacts, among other information.

But from the widespread dissemination of intentionally misleading information to the leaking of profile data on probably more than a billion users, there are big problems related to Facebook's enormous size.

To make matters worse, users weren't alerted to the extra permissions these apps were asking for, like those extended profile properties giving away their friends» information.

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

Facebook says it believes most of its 2.2 billion users had their public profile information scraped by businesses or various malicious actors through this technique at some point.

The social giant is letting users modify their ad profiles while also gaining more information about them.

Grindr later proceeded to publish a full statement, which included a defense that users are given the «option to post information about themselves including HIV status and last test date, and we make it clear in our privacy policy that if you choose to include this information in your profile, the information will also become public.»

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

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.

This has made already uncertain internet users even more hesitant to share their personal data with you — like their email and contact information or even logging onto your website by allowing you to access their information on their social media profile.

Last month, a whistleblower who previously worked for Cambridge Analytica came forward to claim that the British - based firm had used a third - party app to obtain private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without users» knowledge.

But as Facebook has taken it on the chin over the way it has handled the personal information of its users, the leaders of other tech companies have demonstrated that even in publicity - hungry Silicon Valley, it is entirely possible for billionaire executives and their sprawling empires to keep a low profile.

A vulnerability could have enabled attackers to hijack this process and steal information from user profiles.

The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of the voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

Under the new measures, developers can only see a Facebook user's name, profile photo and email address; previously, the could see more information, like users» Facebook posts.

The people doing the scraping used account recovery and search tools that let users look people up by phone numbers and email addresses, then took information from profiles.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

A voter - profiling company was able to harvest data of 50 million Facebook profiles even though only about 270,000 users agreed to hand over their information.

For example, it will prompt users to review information they've shared on their public profile, including religious affiliation or relationship status.

Use it to gather user information that can help you add depth to your persona profiles around issues of user habits and engagement.

In this context, we may ask you to provide contact information such as your name, email address, and physical address; social media information such as your social profile; login information such as user name and password; and other information such as survey responses, photo uploads, and forum posts.

Detailed profiles created with users» information can be used by government agencies to identify surveillance targets, by financial service companies to determine creditworthiness, and by businesses and other organizations (including advocacy groups and political campaigns), which can target people with advertisements and marketing campaigns tailored to their profiles.

The Times added that «roughly 30 million contained enough information, including places of residence, that the company could match users to other records and build psychographic profiles.»

As Deserve, the company's «credit scoring as a service» platform uses online profiles, phone and sensor data, psychometric questions and what the company calls «360 degree feedback» from the user's network to give users insights and contextual information to businesses.

They added that users could also manage who sees their posts and profile information.

Intro is an e-mail plug - in for iOS users that pulls LinkedIn profile information into e-mails so that the sender's job title appears front - and - center in e-mails on a user's iPhone or iPad.

While most brick - and - mortar retailers will only have access to credit card information, or perhaps some personal information through consumer loyalty programs, analysis of Amazon's privacy policy shows that the company collects information on shipping recipients, Internet protocol (IP) addresses of customers, personal information in a user's profile and even the e-mail addresses of friends.

WASHINGTON — Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump's 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network's alerting users.

[Cambridge Analytica] harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former Cambridge employees, associates and documents, making it one of the largest data leaks in the social network's history.

Facebook has declared some types of information, including users» name and profile picture, «publicly available» — and has made all of that information available to each user's friends» apps as well.

A San Diego Navy veteran has joined with two other Southern Californians to file a class - action lawsuit against Facebook and others in the wake of revelations that the profile information of an estimated 87 million users was obtained without their authorization by a political consultancy firm with...

The announcement came after BuzzFeed News revealed that Grindr had been securely providing two companies — Apptimize and Localytics, commonly used services to help optimize apps — with some of the information that Grindr users include in their profiles, including HIV status and «last tested date.»

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

Zuckerberg's remarks were his first since bombshell reports from The New York Times and The Guardian / The Observer alleged British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained and retained the personal information of 50 million Facebook users without their permission — 30 million of them with enough details to match users to other records and build profiles of them.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

Hundreds of app developers requested, and in some cases required, access to information in Facebook users» profiles, tapping into mountains of information about Facebook users and their friends, including hometowns, education, careers, birthdays, photos, relationship statuses and religious and political leanings.

Zuckerberg admitted multiple times throughout the 20 - minute interview that Facebook had made major mistakes in the building of its social platform — going as far back as 2007 — that ultimately led to Cambridge Analytica's ability to misuse the personal profile information of some 50 million users.

Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their public profile data scraped by outside harvesters.

The company used this information to compile psychological profiles of the users, and to create election propaganda appealing to their deepest feelings.

The political profiles formed by gleaning Facebook user information would target them with intentionally fake news articles and advertisements.