Sentences with phrase «widespread use of data»

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The Facebook - Cambridge fiasco is an important wakeup call, but it is likely only the beginning of a thorough examination of tech companies» widespread collection and possibly illegal use of user data.

It includes charges of widespread sexual harassment, a video of CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver for making some reasonable statements, and a New York Times report about Uber using phone apps and data to avoid authorities and sting actions.

The law is intended to prevent the widespread use of privacy - infringing data such as that involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Disquiet about the extent of the state's use of private communications data — including surveillance of the length and time of phone calls, but not their content — has become headline news since Edward Snowden's leaks revealed how widespread the practice has become.

Susan Gould Fogerite, director of research for the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the School of Health Related Professions, said that although there is widespread evidence that yoga is being used as a form of exercise by those with MS, much of the feedback has been anecdotal and there isn't much empirical data regarding its safety and efficacy.

The widespread use of Twitter and Facebook has afforded new approaches to social science research, and requires new techniques to analyze and interpret data using computer science methods.

Historical maps and manufacturing data helped them identify the location of dams and mills, and confirm their widespread use in early colonial times.

Whitham said a limitation of the study is that much of the data predated the widespread use of anti-retroviral therapy, which limited the researchers» capacity to analyze the effects of those treatments on HPV progression.

«Without such long - term data,» said Alexander, «we can not be certain if the widespread use of the costlier drugs is balanced by sufficient improvements in health.»

«As history has proven, when we explore space, we garner the greatest benefits here at home — witness the widespread use of GPS, weather data, remote sensing for farming, MRI scans,» said former NASA astronaut, engineer and physician Dr. Mae Jemison, who leads 100YSS.

«To tackle one of the biggest big data challenges, Intel is also working closely with the Broad Institute in co-developing tools compatible with GATK to eliminate the barriers to more effective and widespread use of large scale genomic workloads.»

The rapid roll out of cash and staff - free stores in China has been made possible by the widespread use of mobile payments, which were 50 times greater in China than those in the US in 2016, according to market data.

Despite initial scepticism about what it would be possible to demonstrate using pre-existing school data, the analysis revealed widespread evidence that meaningful engagement in the Greenhouse Sports programmes was associated with a range of positive outcomes for students when compared to students who did not participate.

However, it needs to be noted that the use of procurement frameworks by MATs is not yet widespread and NFER analysis of SFR data suggests that the larger the trust, the more likely it will be in a deficit position.

I thought it very important to share with you all, as he does a great job deconstructing one of the most widespread claims being made, and most lacking research support, about using the data derived via value - added models (VAMs) to inform and improve what teachers do in their classrooms.

While the score probably isn't too widespread right now, the fact of the matter is that financial institutions are always looking for ways to classify you, and use data about your behavior to figure out how to make money off you — or at least limit potential losses.

There is a need for additional data to be generated to provide proof of efficacy in probiotic therapy before these agents can be applied to widespread clinical use.

Weather predictions are incrementally better now than then, but much of that is because of the widespread use of ever more sophisticated satellite data.

Differences were minimal after 1893 (by which time Stevenson screens were in widespread use for observations except in New South Wales and Victoria, a small area in the context of a global dataset), and before 1878 (when there were limited Australian observations of any kind and most of the continent was considered to be missing data in the HadCRUT4 dataset).

The lack of widespread instrumental climate records introduces the need for the use of natural climate archives from «proxy» data such as tree - rings, corals, speleothems and ice cores, as well as documentary evidence to reconstruct climate in past centuries (see Jones et al. 2009 for a review).

Thousands of companies make use of the agreement when transferring personal data to the US, and the ruling in the case — brought by Austrian law student Max Schrems — that the scheme is invalid has prompted widespread uncertainty about privacy obligations.

This is just the beginning of what will be a widespread and intense change in how data is harvested, used, and managed.

«We can imagine that Facebook may want to try to make Google and others look worse by comparison to the extent that the use of third party data for targeting is a widespread and highly conventional activity in digital advertising.»

Launched in 2012 this company is a VC backed tech start - up who crowdsource purchasing data such as product positioning and pricing details, in real - time through a widespread network of mobile data use...

Now obviously, an estate agency's own website would benefit from the power of our application - allowing very detailed searchable data, but our current concern is that with the US MLS system being in widespread use, would all of this exta detailed property data simply be filtered out when run through a MLS or portal?