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.
Marketing brands via mobile face two difficult challenges: First, gaining consumer attention on their personal and user-controlled devices where they act as singular gatekeepers.
Additionally, every XStreamHD customer has exclusive multi-room access to Pre-Fetched Entertainment (PFE), which provides unparalleled convenience by automatically delivering just-released HD entertainment directly to each user's personal library based upon their individual user preferences and advance title selections.
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"Our goal is to simplify this process by making it easy to use, yet make it personal for each user with our online interface".
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By filling in a personal profile, a user is rewarded with personalized recommendations of their perfect match.
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In 2010 and 2011, a gang of Russian hackers stole personal information from Facebook user accounts.
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It provides performance, audio visual and graphic capabilities to enable Internet-driven applications, video, personal media, advanced user interfaces and electronic program guides.
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But it also connects to a personal computer so the user can import custom graphics like channel icons or pictures of individual components.
The 500 million-strong network offers a personal space for each user, a familiar experience and multiple opportunities for engagement: likes, comments, surveys, videos, photos and more.
The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user.
The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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All these services represent a new wave of personal control over your Web user experience.
The company has developed a video-streaming application, Denso, that specializes in selecting videos based on a user's personal taste.
Based on innovative semantic technology, Jinni filters the universe of content through the lens of the user's personal moods and tastes.
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"We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives, " an NBC spokesman said.
Facebook requires apps to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details.
Like other so-called "social discovery" apps, Highlight works by allowing a small online cloud of personal information to follow a user wherever their cellphone goes.
Twitter initially had refused to disclose the user's personal information to police investigating the threats, but identified the individual after being served with a subpoena.
According to the claims, hearing aids worn by at least two users will work in tandem with a personal computing device to identify user identities, establish a communication link and then swap profiles -- not a list of likes and dislikes, but dynamic audio settings.
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Social-networking sites often contain candid, personal information generated directly by the user.
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Spam filters are now in place on just about every email system, reducing the amount of spam reaching user accounts, both personal and corporate, to a bare minimum.
His visions have included creating one of the first personal computers, commercializing the graphical user interface on the first Macintosh, bringing design to computing with the iMac, and developing the iPod.
Reddit moderators who are not involved in the creepier corners of the site are scared that they, too, will have their identities and personal information revealed by any disgruntled user.
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This puts millions of user accounts and their personal information at the mercy not just of Facebook, but of the ethics of every company that becomes an instant personalization partner in the future.
The story talks about how the industry and IT are at a crossroad similar to the one 25 years ago with the transformation from traditional mainframes and terminals to the new class of end-user devices in the Personal Computer.
In 1999, DoubleClick tried to create a database of user profiles that would include personal information like names and addresses.
As an aside, it's neat to see user reviews built into a personal navigator, which isn't exactly a typical feature.
Apps using personal data can provide a range of user benefits, but accessing user data is a privilege, not a right.
In a statement made Tuesday, Sony spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka said the company was planning to revive its online gaming network by the end of this month, and confirmed that personal data from 24.6 million user accounts had been stolen in a hacker attack last month.
As part of the contest, Netflix released 500, 000 user records, stripped of all personal information, and, for each account, just a list of movies and the one-to-five-star rating given to each.
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