FB data theft: CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, another firm
The app illegally harvested additional data of FB users and of their friends.
The app illegally harvested additional data of FB users and of their friends.
'Any attempts to undermine the integrity of our service is antithetical to our fundamental rights and undermines the core tenets of freedom of expression, the value upon which our company is based', said Twitter in its official statement.
Dorsey's announcement contrasts Facebook's recent attempts to justify its decisions to exempt posts by politicians from its third-party fact-checking program and to exempt ads by politicians and from a policy banning false or misleading statements in advertising.
Cheeseman and Klaas, who have used neo-colonial stereotyping in this book, would have done better to propose that Indian teams are sent to evaluate elections in the West and the Election Commission of India be taken as an universal standard. But the western viewpoint and propensity to pontificate remain incorrigible
In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook in October admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their 'access tokens' or digital keys.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought information from Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research (GSR) in connection with illegal data collection of Indian users.
Facebook has over 20 crore users in India. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company had said that the data of about 87 million people - mostly in the US - might have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
The leading social network offered no details but its admission confirmed reports of a widening investigation into the misuse of private data by Facebook and its partners.
The government will not allow "fly-by-night" data mining firms to improperly harvest social media data of Indian citizens, Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said.
The former US presidential candidate was at Harvard on Friday receiving the Radcliffe Medal, which honours people who have "had a transformative impact on society".
