The large study
using claims data for 369,320 enrollees age 40 and older in a nationwide managed care network who had cataract surgery was published Nov. 22 in JAMA Ophthalmology.
HEALTH BENEFITS PLATFORM INTEGRATES CLAIMS DATA TO IMPROVE RECOMMENDATION ACCURACY: Castlight Health, a US healthcare information company, has added a new feature to its Wellbeing Navigation app for employees that
uses claims data to provide more accurate recommendations for health solutions.
Insurance companies
use claims data as part of the criteria for obtaining insurance rates for different makes and types of vehicles.
Not exact matches
A report from the The Guardian
claimed that the Cruz campaign was
using psychological
data on millions of Facebook users.
The
data results of a Social Security number verification can contain the state of and approximate year of the number; status as an invalid, nonissued, or misused number; status on whether the number has been
used to file a death
claim; address (es) of the user; employer (s) of the user; the year of birth or age of the user.
«I think it is unlikely,» Aleksandr Kogan said of
claims that Facebook
data he shared with Cambridge Analytica was
used to help Donald Trump's campaign.
(One daft analyst even
claimed Arlo was worth 10 times Netgear's entire market value because its store of video
data could be
used for AI training projects.)
The day after this story posted, an Amazon spokesman got back with a link to this post by evangelist Jeff Barr which
claimed that Amazon cloud customers
use 77 % fewer servers and 84 % less power than busineses that run their own
data centers.
Amanda Rushing, the lawsuit's plaintiff,
claims that Disney's various mobile gaming apps routinely collect smartphone
data that can eventually be
used to create profiles of children that advertisers can then exploit.
The tool, which is called RXMentor, automatically pulls in
claims data to build out a list of medications users are currently or have previously
used.
For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people
use data from different sources to
claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.
This same tactic was
used by Iranian hackers to break into Gmail in 2011 and Edward Snowden
claimed the National Security Agency
used the same technique to gain access Google traffic
data, the Times reported.
The Post «s attempt to make contacts
using data provided from Jiedaibao was largely fruitless, with the few people who did answer their phone calls
claiming to not be the borrowers in question.
Ellison said that Oracle's cloud computing strategy takes into account the idea that customers want to
use a mix of their own
data centers, as well as those from providers, an idea that some refer to as a «hybrid cloud,» which Microsoft has also
claimed it supports.
The ICO
claims that DeepMind failed to explain to participants how it was
using their medical
data for the project.
Facebook has long supported the idea of
using customized software to optimize its
data center and
claims that by doing so, the company has saved a lot of money.
The EFF
claims that Google has been «collecting, maintaining,
using, and sharing»
data from students who
use its Chromebooks in schools, and its educational apps.
Uber also agreed to notify the Attorney General's office if it begins to collect GPS
data from customers» smartphones when they're not
using the app, something the company
claims it doesn't do, according to BuzzFeed.
They were able to
use Obamacare
claims data, information about how much health care enrollees
used, to inform rates for the first time when setting rates for 2016.
As if Facebook didn't have enough on its plate, the company is currently investigating a
claim that an engineer
used access to Facebook's
data to stalk women online.
Cambridge Analytica
used the Facebook
data to help build tools that it
claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.
Another piece of information Facebook has included in the written evidence is the
claim that it does not believe AIQ
used Facebook
data obtained via Kogan's apps for targeting referendum ads — saying it
used email address uploads for «many» of its ad campaigns during the referendum.
Companies are
using drone technology to inspect and gather
claims data on damage from hurricanes.
Facebook has said that people who took the quiz were told that their
data would be
used only for academic purposes,
claiming that it and its users were misled by Cambridge Analytica and the researcher it hired, Aleksandr Kogan, a 28 - year - old Russian - American academic.
He stretched the truth,
claiming that the company does not sell its
data to advertisers when its entire platform is built for advertisers to
use that
data to target consumers.
Nix
claimed a variety of sources were being
used to glean this
data — everything from Facebook
data to phone surveys and voting history.
For its part, CA has hedged about whether it even
used Kogan's research: It's repeatedly
claimed that «psychographics» — the original Cambridge personality profile
data — played no significant part in its work for the Trump campaign.
Earlier this week, a whistleblower
claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and
data analytics firm, had
used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.
In a phone call with a ZDNet reporter, chief technical officer Ashfaq Rahman
claimed UpGuard «hacked» into its S3 bucket, said that most of the
data was «fabricated» and
used for internal testing only, and that nobody but the UpGuard researcher accessed it.
She
claimed viral tactics were
used to harvest Facebookers»
data, naming two additional survey apps it had deployed on Facebook's platform as a «sex compass» app and a music quiz app
claiming to determine your personality.
His technology is described as «different from most social research measurement instruments» in that it is not solely based on self - reported
data — with the follow - on
claim being made that: «
Using observed
data from Facebook users» profiles makes GS» measurements genuinely behavioral.»
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.
During the House committee hearing on Wednesday, Zuckerberg
claimed not to know what «shadow profiles» are, even though this term has been
used for years to describe Facebook's collection of
data about people who don't
use its services by harvesting the inboxes and smartphone contacts of active Facebook users.
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The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political
data firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, had
used the Facebook
data to develop methods that it
claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal
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Wylie now
claims the company and its behavior research affiliate Strategic Communication Laboratories have direct links to Russia and
used the Facebook
data to influence the outcome of the US presidential election.
On Monday, Facebook said that it was investigating
claims that one if its security engineers was
using their
data access privileges to stalk women online.
Lawsuit
claims that Facebook «stood idly by» as a «treasure trove of
data» was transferred to third - party Cambridge Analytica, and then
used in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
Mr. Collins, the British lawmaker, said he planned to call Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, to return to Parliament and answer questions about testimony last month in which he
claimed that the company never obtained or
used Facebook
data.
If Cambridge Analytica had been
using the illicit Facebook
data for years already — and The New York Times reports that it did not delete all the
data that it had
claimed — there's no telling who else has copies, copies that wouldn't be easily found by Facebook auditors now.
Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic at Cambridge University, got permission from Facebook to pull
data via an app he created — but he reportedly
claimed he'd
use this
data only for academic purposes, not commercial ones.
The first paper, authored by economists at the Investment Company Institute and the IRS,
used data from a large sample of taxpayers to examine what happened to individuals» inflation - adjusted disposable income up to three years after they
claim Social Security retirement benefits.
Facebook has said little about Kogan besides asserting that he lied when he
claimed his
data - gathering would be
used only for academic research.
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Cambridge Analytica
used Facebook
data it promised Facebook it had deleted, the company
claims.
While both parties have denied explicit wrongdoing, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are facing whistleblower
claims this
data was
used to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, with the latter firm also being said to have yielded influence over other democratic votes including the EU referendum.
Although this economic
data is encouraging, most experts
claim that it will take 2 - 5 years for businesses to begin to launch strategic initiatives that make
use of the benefits of a low exchange rate.
Insurance giant Aetna has agreed to pay more than $ 18.2 million to settle two separate
data breach
claims arising out of the inadvertent disclosure of health information due to the layout of the envelopes it
used for customer communications.
Kogan later passed this information on to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which
claimed (but now denies) that it
used the
data to craft political ads for President Trump's 2016 election.