The scramble for user data is intense across the online and especially mobile space.
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The company has been fighting battles in Brazil over user data and publishing tussles in Brussels.
That feature--seemingly designed to play up the privacy threat of Google's huge collection of user data--backfired.
Google, by contrast, fought the subpoena on grounds of trade secrecy and avoided revealing user data.
The vast majority of these applications do not collect or transmit any user data whatsoever.
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Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is.
No user data was at risk and the matter is now resolved for the majority of users.
This erases all user data, for protection from people who might steal the device and then hack it.
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Everything is encrypted locally and backed up in the cloud, so user data is always safe and secure.
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In 2009, Google began disclosing the volume of requests for user data it received from the U.S. government.
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The role of regulations, specifically, can limit who can be in the business of user data collection and mining.
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Though the company's defense was based on protecting trade secrets, not user privacy, it nonetheless avoided revealing user data.
Currently, in large NT 4.0 networks, user data is distributed across multiple domains.
"We have no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised in this attack, " Facebook said in its blog post.
Both Facebook and Apple said no user data were accessed in the attacks.
To follow through with the analogy, the model would be content, which includes both media files and user data.
Rather than a direct attempt by Facebook to monetize user data, this is, essentially, a design flaw on the Internet.
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In a voyeuristic twist, it also tracks user data and uploads it to the Web, where publishers can analyze it.
Facebook admitted to the breach in a blog post last Friday, also saying that no user data was compromised.
At Google we see deploying Chromebooks broadly as being one of the best ways we can protect our user data.
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This allows for consumer specific applications where combining published content with related user data on a convenient, single volume is desirable.
Apps using personal data can provide a range of user benefits, but accessing user data is a privilege, not a right.
Despite criticisms over its privacy policies, Google is one of the few search engines that has yet to leak user data.
Yet another customer uses our chips in casino gaming systems to keep track of user data, configuration settings and transaction data.
Through user data, value is created where applications are used by people, not only in Bermuda or in the Cayman Islands.
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Researchers will be able to see where and when check-ins were made, but the only user data attached will be a gender.
The business model also demands that Facebook care more about delivering user data to advertisers than ensuring the privacy of their users.
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Facebook's policy is to not actually look at user data except to check whether someone is violating the site's terms of service.
The volume and richness of user data collected through pinning is unparalleled.
Sure, cloud platform vendors will argue that their software, if run properly, isolates all user data and setting info from each other.
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