By placing a tracking cookie on a user's computer, an advertising network can collect information about the user's web-browsing activities and use that information to serve online ads targeted to the user's interests or for other purposes.
The social network said in a blog post Friday afternoon that approximately 250, 000 user accounts were potentially compromised, with attackers gaining access to information including user names and email addresses.
With its built-in accelerometer and microphone, the smartphone can detect the state of the user's sleep and provide detailed information about the user's sleeping habits, including the duration of sleep, the number of times the user rolls over during the night, and snoring-related information.
They provide no Adsense revenue and, equally importantly, give Google none of the signalling information about user behaviour and intention that, for example, feeds Google Now.
July 2006: US media reports that intruders penetrate the US Department of State (DoS) networks, stealing sensitive information and user login credentials, and install backdoors on numerous computers, allowing them to return to the systems at will.
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In a distributed network, however, the central server is removed, and the user account passes information directly to another user who requests it.
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Following an investigation by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Facebook in June limited applications to accessing only the public parts of a user's profile, unless the user grants additional permission. (Canadian officials later expressed satisfaction with Facebook's steps.) Previously, applications could tap any data the user had access to, including detailed profiles and information about a user's friends.
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Which Twitter official is ultimately responsible for authorizing the disclosure of private user information?
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In addition, the cloud allowed the designers to create redundancies in stored user information and data.
It's unclear how many, if any, of those cases involved passing user information to marketing companies.
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The release also claims that user information on Sonypictures.com was stored in unencrypted, plain text format.
Unlike Twitter, Facebook said it has found no evidence that any user information was compromised.
This data set is quite literally the most extensive and valuable assortment of user information available.
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In 2010 and 2011, a gang of Russian hackers stole personal information from Facebook user accounts.
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Likewise, advertisements will be tailored to suit individual users based on their prior searches and other user information.
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More information, a user guide and answers to frequently asked questions are available on the Zero Motorcycles mobile app webpage.
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Many customers expect on-demand information, customized user experiences, and mobile apps that IT is expected to deliver quickly, cheaply, and reliably.
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It looked good, it presented more information to the user at a glance and it was more efficient than its predecessor.
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Data from Google shows the number of requests for user information from law enforcement agencies are at an all time high.
Its most popular blogs are, not surprisingly, on technology subjects, but also on real estate--making the user information valuable to multiple advertisers.
Then when the search engine finds a matching result, it sends the information to the user on a computer or mobile device.
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One measure is provided by Google, which reports that the U.S. government agencies make close to 1, 000 requests for user information every month.
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Rather, it would also communicate to the user information useful in decision-making, about not just usage, but market prices, and grid conditions as well.
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In addition, Canada called for Facebook to develop technology that would give developers access only to the user information required for an app to work properly.
One of the biggest indictments in the complaint is the allegation that Facebook disclosed user information to advertisers despite consistent claims that it never did so.
It is a system that relies on cookies to track user information and behavior, a technology that is not available within apps in iOS or Android.
The first version of Liberty's specification deals only with single sign-on, not with the more controversial exchange of user information, such as payment details and buying preferences.
Authorities' quest this week for personal user information highlights a growing conundrum for companies in the Internet age, when privacy concerns are pitted against those of public safety.
At the same privacy forum, Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer presented a new study that examined 250 websites to see which ones were leaking user information to third parties.
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Last April, for example, it took Sony five days to fully own up to a now historic data breach that compromised PlayStation Network and Qriocity user information and passwords.
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