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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Likewise, advertisements will be tailored to suit individual users based on their prior searches and other user information.
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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.
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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Over the weekend, Google's privacy record received its harshest criticism yet: A study by London-based Privacy International placed Google dead last in its rankings of online companies for user information protection.
To provide these notifications in real time, the wireless wide-area network modules from Novatel Wireless securely connect through HSDPA and EV-DO networks to the Microsoft Exchange Server, storing user information and filter policies.
Microsoft and Ask.com issued a joint statement over the weekend calling on members of the search industry to meet and discuss ways they can work together to define privacy principles and protect user information.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers including Apple, Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram asking how their social apps collect user information.
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In his written testimony, Salgado notes that the 1986 ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) doesn't reflect the internet circa 2013, noting how cloud computing has increased the amount of user information shared and stored online.
In a smart bit of timing, Twitter on Monday released its first Twitter Transparency Report, detailing requests from governments around the world to get user information or suppress tweets during the first half of 2012.
Good believes augmented reality applications are increasingly falling into two categories: those with trackers that put graphics into a scene, particularly for games, and those that are GPS-based which can give a user information about their surrounding environment.
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Because the script is being run in the context of the trusted web site, it has access to cookies such as session tokens, as well as any other user information available within the security context of that web site.
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Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, said such a move would give attackers "a toehold" in Twitter's internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company's system or break into specific areas, such as the authentication servers that process users' passwords.
Emerging sensor technologies like barometer, microbolometers, and chemical sensors will provide even richer user context information.
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This highlights a gap between the simplicity and availability of end user security information.
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