Sentences with phrase «users were abusing»

However, many users were abusing the system and adding on illicit extensions.

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«Many road users are abusing the civility of the unarmed personnel that are trained to be cautious while discharging their legitimate duties.

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People began looking into the records because of the #DeleteFacebook movement, which followed the revelation that the Facebook data of 50 million users was abused by political data firm Cambridge...

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For years, Twitter has been criticized for focusing more on freedom of speech and anonymity than on curbing abuse and harassment of its users.

But now, the company says it hopes to identify abuse while it is actually occurring, instead of waiting until a user flags it.

One of Breitbart's most notorious writers is Milo Yiannopolous, who has been banned from Twitter for encouraging his followers to abuse and harass other users including the comedian and actress Leslie Jones.

Though the law's real impacts are hard to predict, it's designed to protect users from just the sort of abuse that has so many fed up with Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild.

CEO Jack Dorsey said Friday that Twitter was trying the tactic to «diminish abuse,» which has plagued Twitter's users for years despite the company's repeated promises to clean up the problem.

The company said it's seen a 25 % dip in abuse reports for accounts that were previously disciplined, and 65 % of users who have been disciplined do not repeat their abusive actions.

Another big conversation about Twitter right now is about preventing the abuse of users by others.

Every few months, it offers users new tools to mute racial slurs or report threats, but even though the company says it has stepped up its rules enforcement by an order of magnitude, users who report abuse typically hear there's nothing to be done about it.

Likewise, there's good reason to think the goal of «protecting our community from abuse and hatred» is a non-starter as long as «our community» means a user base of more than two billion people.

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

«Since protecting users is a top priority for Google, we have detailed policies against deceptive or misleading use of trademarks in ad text and take swift action when we see this type of abuse on our platform,» the representative said.

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When asked why Facebook didn't follow up when it found that Cambridge Analytica was abusing user data back in 2016, Sandberg told Guthrie: «You are right — we could have done this two and a half years ago... We thought the data had been deleted and we should have checked.»

But for users, who were getting sick of invite spam and other developer abuses of the API, not so much.

Recently, the company did implement new algorithms that can limit the accounts of users who show a pattern of abuse, something that is not exactly an A.I. And, they've talked about using IBM Watson to help, but that's not exactly developing the A.I. in house.

It's also unclear that the increased marijuana use by pregnant women represents drug abuse; for instance, nausea and anxiety (both common among pregnancy) are among the most common symptoms of medical marijuana users, which may in part explain the increase in usage.

Although some users who have been hit with the restriction have said they believe it was because they used an abusive term, a spokesperson for Twitter told BuzzFeed that when deciding who to apply the limit to, the service's harassment and abuse team looks at a pattern of overall behavior, rather than just individual words.

The latest step the company is taking is to throttle the reach of users it believes are being offensive or targeting others for abuse.

Among the other steps that Twitter has taken to curb abuse is a new filter that tries to weed out harassing or «low quality» replies to user's tweets.

So Islands is encouraging users to connect their accounts on its service with their Snapchat or Instagram accounts as a way of identifying themselves, thinking that will make them more reluctant to abuse others.

Citing abuse by some bad apples (my words), Microsoft is nixing free unlimited OneDrive storage for most users.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

This is an important distinction, because in all three autopilot cases — and I want to be careful to not blame the victims here — the users appear to have potentially misused — or perhaps even abused — the technology.

Adam is the CEO and co-founder of NS8 Inc, a cyber security company that protects online business from fraud and abuse and enables them to provide optimal user experiences for their customers.

«Internet users in the U.S. are left incredibly vulnerable to this sort of abuse because of the lack of comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, which leaves this data unprotected.»

This week was full of startling, scary news about how carelessly Facebook treated user data, and how Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy previously led in part by Steve Bannon, abused access to that data, possibly for Trump's presidential campaign.

Kogan seemed most comfortable during the session when he was laying into Facebook's platform policies — perhaps unsurprisingly, given how the company has sought to paint him as a rogue actor who abused its systems by creating an app that harvested data on up to 87 million Facebook users and then handing information on its users off to third parties.

She'd limited Zuckerberg's options to either admitting he was unaware of conversations among leadership choosing to withhold news of this data abuse from users (unrealistic), or admitting that leadership did not have those conversations (deeply troubling).

To be eligible for the bounty, the offending app must impact more than 10,000 Facebook users and show a clear pattern of abuse and not «collection» (in this case, I'm assuming abuse would qualify as transferring the data to a third party without permission).

First announced amid a slew of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around abuse of user data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new bounty program is modeled off of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million bug bounty.

According to SF Gate the company has been hit with four suits in federal courts so far this week following fresh revelations about how Facebook's app permissions were abused to surreptitiously suck out vast amounts of user data.

CDT anticipates that members of Congress will ask about Facebook's approach and commitment to the privacy of its users, its advertising - driven business model and susceptibility to abuse, and whether the company now believes it is time to support a comprehensive privacy law in the United States.

How will Facebook support independent, ethical research that is appropriately vetted, provides more controls to users, and allows Facebook to ensure its users» data is not being abused or used unethically?

«Internet users in United States are left incredibly vulnerable to this sort of abuse because of the lack of comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, which leaves this data unprotected.

The 2018 revelations of data abuse caused an unprecedented controversy for Facebook, which is the world's most widely used social network, with more than 2 billion users.

In its blog posts, Facebook has repeatedly focused the blame on Kogan but conceded the data abuse that took place was a «breach of trust» with its users.

Earlier this month, it was discovered that Cambridge Analytica, also a third - party data provider, abused Facebook user data, and may have stored and shared the data against Facebook's policies.

«The IRS offers no explanation as to how the IRS can legitimately use most of these millions of records on hundreds of thousands of users; instead, it claims that as long as it has submitted a declaration from an IRS agent that the IRS «is conducting an investigation to determine the identity and correct federal income tax liabilities of United States persons who conducted transactions in a virtual currency during 2013 - 2015» the Court must find that the Summons does not involve an abuse of process.

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.

Bipartisan calls for Facebook to testify on Capitol Hill intensified Monday as Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is influential on technology issues, sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about alleged abuse of user data.

In addition to giving users a quick way to check if their information was scraped by the analytics firm, the site has launched a data abuse bounty program to report app developers who may be misusing data.

Tuesday was also the first day of F8, the social network's annual developer conference, where it was expected to address many of the privacy changes and quality - control measures put in effect since it was reported that data firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly abused the private information of up to 87 million Facebook users for political operations.

It isn't only personal users and it isn't only politics: Complaints date back before the 2016 election exposed the depths of abuse infecting social media.

Former employees said the company's security team for many years was more focused on abuse by real users, including racist and sexist content and orchestrated harassment campaigns.

User is responsible for taking corrective actions on vulnerable or exploited systems to prevent continued abuse.