Sentence examples for data was sold from inspiring English sources

RAM Mobile Data was sold and renamed BellSouth Wireless Data in 1995 and later became Cingular Interactive when BellSouth and SBC Communications formed Cingular Wireless.

Ms. Harris pressed Mr. Zuckerberg on whether Facebook executives made a decision not to inform users about the Cambridge Analytica data leak when they learned in 2015 that data was sold by a researcher to the political consulting firm.

Facebook said the investigation "determined that no private user data was sold and confirmed that transfer of these UIDs did not give access to any private data".

The article itself keeps mum about exactly what kind of data was sold, and to which "phone firms" eventually ponied up for it.

Mr Wylie says that data was sold to Cambridge Analytica, which then used it to psychologically profile people and deliver pro-Trump material to them, with a view to influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

The data was sold and resold through the underworld.

The data is sold to marketers, to governments, and to consumer-research institutions.

Anonymized and aggregated data are sold either to intermediate companies or end customers who mine the data for insights.

Buckles is right: when your data is sold, no one receives that kind of money for it.

Phil Booth of medConfidential, which campaigns on medical privacy, said every day another instance of "whole population level data being sold emerges which had been previously denied".

The data being sold -- at $900 for 90 years' worth of birth records -- included information like birth dates and mothers' maiden names.