Sentences with phrase «users about the information»

The portal offers a great opportunity to figure out how to train lawyers and other law firm users about the information and resources available to them.

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As part of that agreement, Facebook promised to not share information about its users with third parties without the users» affirmative consent.

Designers of an app that alerts the user to low blood - sugar levels, for instance, might think about how technology can transmit its feedback to the body in ways that are more direct than displaying information on a smartphone screen.

But sources told the Post that the partnership was being designed not to compromise users» privacy — that Google might, for example, share information about the codes used in the attack, but not about compromised data.

After parroting prepared remarks about the disclosure of Facebook's massive privacy breach, Moffat's Zuckerberg (in a plain brown T - shirt) petulantly declares his indifference to the unlawful exploitation of Facebook users» personal information.

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

Created by women - focused business accelerator Circular Boards and incubated at Dell subsidiary Pivotal, Alice gives users customized information about events, content, mentors and tools that can assist with whichever entrepreneurial challenge they happen to be facing.

The service can respond to questions about the weather and traffic, and can also connect to things like personal calendars and Gmail accounts to provide personalized information to users who ask.

As reported by the Associated Press, new smart phone applications combine information from the world and the Web to allow users to get information about what surrounds them.

Most of this isn't new information, but it's part of Facebook's initiative to be more transparent with the government and its users about how the data it collects is shared.

Nara says your email is the only personal information it collects about its users (unless of course you consider your unhealthy obsession with, say, kale to be personal information).

Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.

«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.

Facebook says organizations will receive information about users who set up fundraisers for their benefit, but nonprofits will only get donors» emails addresses if the donor opts to disclose it.

In effect, Cathcart said that with more than a billion users, Facebook can't possibly make across - the - board decisions about what is newsworthy or what is crucial information for users to know and what isn't.

But it's clear she had the social network and possibly Google's (goog) ad business, which is based on detailed information about user habits, in mind when she said «we believe the data belongs to you.»

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.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

«All of our past assumptions about how the user interacts with information are being challenged.

Regardless of timing, a hacker began offering data in May from the adult dating site that included not only account information, like user names and passwords, but dates of birth and details about those users» sexual desires and preferences.

In the name of consumer trust, businesses are wise to be up front and open about the user data they harvest, as opposed to burying this information in fine print.

By collecting information about consumers — such as which online ads result in sales — advertisers argue they can show higher - quality ads relevant to users» actual interests, as shown by their shopping history.

Even back then, Facebook users were concerned about how much information third - party apps had access to, and they voiced those concerns to Facebook.

The company's breach of trust has sparked loads of questions about how it protects user information.

Also on March 27, a group of Facebook users filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the social media giant's Messenger app collected information about their phone calls and text messages.

They're collecting more information about their users» locations and search histories, and doing everything they can to give them local - specific results.

Facebook users almost certainly had no idea that the information gleaned about them and their friends through a personality - quiz app could be used to try to influence an election, as was said to the case in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

On the other hand, Facebook is ramping up efforts to clarify privacy controls and help users find exactly what information Facebook knows about them.

Several users were surprised to learn recently that Facebook had been collecting information about whom they texted or called and for how long, though not the actual contents of text messages.

For one, it is restricting access that apps can get about users» events, as well as information about groups such as member lists and content.

An IP address provides specific location information about a user that can be repurposed to serve advertising.

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

The new policy also makes it clear that WhatsApp and Instagram are part of Facebook and that the companies share information about users.

Insights aggregates data about the users that interact with your page and any information that isn't publicly displayed by users isn't available to businesses.

For example, there are surely lots of ways for the company to make money by selling the right bits of the vast trove of information it currently has about its roughly 900 million users.

Bixby is the virtual personal assistant Samsung debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S8 line, allowing users to create reminders and snap photos of items to get more information about them.

Unlike competing advertising platforms, Apple's system will get exclusive access to information about when users view and click on embedded ads.

Of course, it'll be a great recruitment tool for the company; the more data women enter about their reproductive cycles — and Glow gets personal: It asks about the sexual positions couples use while attempting to conceive, for example — the better Glow will work as Levchin, Huang, and the team apply machine - learning to the information to develop a deeper understanding of how to advise future users on how and when to conceive.

But these aren't about generating commerce, at least not yet — they're more about conveying information, creating advertising opportunities, and enticing users to remain engaged on Facebook.

The product basically allows users to point at an object (a chair, blouse or fruit, for instance) with their smartphone and receive related information about that item on Pinterest.

When the user finds something appealing, he or she can tap on the image to see more information about the item from the seller.

After users label a story as questionable and fact checkers dispute the story and flag it, «You'll still be able to read and share the story, but you'll now have more information about whether fact checkers believe it's accurate,» the CEO wrote.

It goes without saying that in today's digital Wild West environment data brokers may not be totally forthcoming about the ways they monetize the genetic information of their users.

He posed the question directly to Zuckerberg, asking if Facebook uses audio taken from mobile devices to «enrich personal information about its users.»

While the technology is still learning about its users, it eventually will «push» resources — say, information on government - buying programs for women - owned business — rather than people aimlessly searching for 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.»

Users come to the theater and the theater's site to be entertained and titillated with previews but also need information about schedules, pricing and all those wonderful movie snacks.

Although Zuckerberg talked a lot about protecting user information, he did not mention why Facebook overlooked the potential problems inherent in giving developers such broad access to user data in the first place.

As it has grown into a phenomenon, Facebook has repeatedly sparked privacy concerns from critics concerned about its push to get users to reveal more personal information.

But about once every five times users subsequently logged in, we showed them a fun modal that prompted them to give us more information in a whimsical way.