GSR
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Meaning
a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body
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Cisco answered the challenge with homegrown ASICs and fast processing cards for GSR routers and Catalyst 6500 switches.
According to multiple Chinese media reports, Ou Chengxiao, brother-in-law of GSR’s managing partner Allen Zhu, stated in an open course he teaches that GSR sold its entire stake in ofo to Alibaba for US$3 billion, at the valuation of US$10 billion.
Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have blamed GSR, the company that harvested Facebook data using a personality app, for duping them.
It said its contract with Kogan’s company, Global Science Research (GSR), stipulated that Kogan should seek informed consent for data collection and it had no reason to believe he would not.
Kogan owns GSR, the Cambridge, U.K.-based company founded in 2014 with a goal “to optimize marketing strategies with the power of big data and psychological sciences,” according to its website.
But Obama’s team was using data that users had (perhaps without realizing) granted it permission to access, while GSR transferred the data to third parties.