Over 5 lakh Indian Facebook users affected |
Following Indian the Ministry of Information Technology shot off notices to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica on the data breach issue and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government could summon Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to India if needed, Facebook response includes specific information on how the Cambridge Analytica case affected Indian users. Facebook says Cambridge Analytica`s acquisition of Facebook data through the app developed by Dr. Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research Limited (“GSR”) happened without our authorization and was an explicit violation of their Platform policies. It ran an investigation "with respect to Indian user data" for the app "thisisyourdigitallife" which is at the centre of the case. Based on this investigation, Mark Zuckerberg seeks another chance, as he is still the man to run Facebook. A total of 335 people in India installed the App, which is 0.1% of the App`s total worldwide installs. Facebook says the information available to it is limited to people who installed the App throughout its lifetime on the Facebook Platform (i.e. 2013 to no later than 17 December 2015). • Facebook reports that 562,120 additional people in India were potentially affected, as friends of people who installed the App.
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