Sentences with phrase «users for political purposes»

The phone - scraping revelations broke as full - page Facebook ads ran in several Sunday papers in the United Kingdom and United States, apologizing for having allowed Cambridge Analytica to use the personal data of some 50 million users for political purposes.

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(Whether the 50 million affected Facebook users will be notified that their data was used to build «psychographic profiles» for the purposes of shaping their political beliefs remains to be seen.)

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

«I doubt in Facebook's user policy it says that users can be advertised for political purposes — it just has broad language to provide for whatever use cases they want.

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.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

The researcher hired by Cambridge Analytica, Alexandr Kogan, told Facebook and his app's users that he was collecting information for academic purposes, not for a political data firm owned by a wealthy conservative.

The researcher Aleksandr Kogan was banned from the platform for creating the quiz app that was able to access 50 million user profiles, which he then shared with Cambridge Analytica, after claiming the app was for academic purposes, not political ones.

Reports that Facebook harvested and abused users» data for political purposes emerged Friday, as the company's former partnership with the voter - profiling company Cambridge Analytica was exposed.

The Apple chief has also called for stronger data privacy regulations in light of the scandal, which saw the data of 50 million Facebook users improperly harvested and used for political purposes.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

The consulting firm allegedly used the personal information of 50 million Facebook users, without their permission, for political purposes.

What do the Equifax breach, Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook users» data for political campaign purposes and Grindr's sharing of users» HIV status have in common?

The company has been at the center of an unrelenting firestorm following revelations that it allowed Cambridge Analytica to mine private data belonging to 50 million of its users without permission, which Cambridge Analytica then leveraged for political purposes.

According to Facebook, Dr. Kogan provided Cambridge Analytica — a political data analytics firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign and financed by billionaire Robert Mercer — access to information about 50 million Facebook users, all the while telling Facebook the data was being gathered for academic purposes.

Musk's decision comes as users are abandoning Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, where it emerged that the startup had harvested 50 million users» data for political campaigning purposes.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

It's those kinds of permissions that researcher Aleksandr Kogan allegedly abused years later to gather data on unwitting Facebook users for purposes of targeted political messaging.

To recap: Facebook has admitted that political research firm Cambridge Analytica, linked to both President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Brexit leave vote, improperly obtained data from as many as 87 million Facebook users for ad targeting purposes.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that his company had made mistakes in a data leak that caused grave concern about user privacy possibly abused for political purposes.

«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.

So perhaps it's worried it might risk losing this chunk of elite business in the US if American Facebook users have to give explicit consent to their political leanings being fair game for ad targeting purposes.

The growing scandal over personal information on Facebook being tapped for political purposes could result in the abandonment of the social media giant by users angered that their information wasn't...

Facebook is proposing only narrow countermeasures that address the specifics of the furor over Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that's accused of improperly obtaining data from some 50 million Facebook users for the purpose of influencing voters.

EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova described as «horrifying» the reports that personal data of Facebook users «could be so easily mishandled and used for political purpose».

But that doesn't change the fact that the data of 50 million users was obtained without express permission and used for political purposes.