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DataSpii (pronounced data-spy) is a leak that directly compromised the private data of as many as 4 million Chrome and Firefox users via at least eight browser extensions. [1] [2] [3] The eight browser extensions included Hover Zoom, SpeakIt!, SuperZoom, SaveFrom.net Helper, FairShare Unlock, PanelMeasurement, Branded Surveys, and Panel Community Surveys. [4]
There are several causes that contribute to the invasion of privacy throughout social networking platforms. It has been recognized that “by design, social media technologies contest mechanisms for control and access to personal information, as the sharing of user-generated content is central to their function."
For example, when you play a game with your Facebook friends or use a Facebook Comment or Share button on a website, the game developer or website can receive information about your activities in the game or receive a comment or link that you share from the website on Facebook.
YouGov approaches this problem by recruiting a large panel of internet users who have agreed to participate in online surveys. This panel is itself not representative of the U.S. population, but samples are drawn from that panel to match a random sample of respondents drawn from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (more information ...
This survey has no real introduction, and jumps straight into the heart of the matter: just how much do you like. If you're a CityVille player, you'll likely receive a new survey from Zynga in ...
Ad-hoc Application - Ad-hoc application is a kind of application that provides services and games to social network users by developing the APIs offered by social network companies (Facebook Developer Platform). The infrastructure of Ad-hoc application allows the user to interact with the interface layer instead of the application servers.
Prodege, LLC (/ p r oʊ d eɪ ˈ ʒ eɪ /) is an American online marketing, consumer polling, and market research company based in El Segundo, California.The company develops consumer rewards and polling programs under various brands including Swagbucks, MyPoints, InboxDollars, CouponCause, Tada, Ysense, Upromise, and Pollfish.
In 2010, the Office of the Data Protection Supervisor, a branch of the government of the Isle of Man, received so many complaints about Facebook that they deemed it necessary to provide a "Facebook Guidance" booklet (available online as a PDF file), which cited (amongst other things) Facebook policies and guidelines and included an elusive ...