NEW DELHI: The executive on Wednesday opened a new entrance towards Congress, alleging that the party has been involved with the arguable data company Cambridge Analytica (CA), and also warned social media giant Facebook towards any try to affect India’s electoral process via “unwanted means”. Law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked Congress to explain its connection with CA, accused of attempting to control elections from the United States to Kenya.
“It is a major security threat for the rustic and Congress will have to solution in this,” Prasad said. Prasad additionally warned Facebook of difficult motion if it was discovered interfering in India’s poll process. “Mr Mark Zuckerberg, you higher note the statement of the IT minister of India. We welcome FB profile in India, but when any data theft of Indians is finished via collusion of FB system, it shall no longer be tolerated. We have got stringent powers in the IT Act, we shall use them, including summoning you to India,” Prasad warned.
The controversy over CA getting access to the profiles of hundreds of thousands of FB customers and focused on them at the foundation of knowledge got, and claims by way of a senior reputable of the social media site that there have been several illegalities, has sent FB’s stock plummeting. “My query to Congress is whether to win elections the party depends upon data manipulation and theft of information,” Prasad said.
"What is the position of Cambridge Analytica in the social media profile of Rahul Gandhi?” IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked as the government regarded to hyperlink the primary opposition to the burgeoning controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica. Quoting media reports, Prasad alleged that Cambridge Analytica — reported by way of a bit of the media as being considered by way of Congress to lend a hand the 2019 marketing campaign — has been accused of the usage of bribes and intercourse employees to entrap politicians and scouse borrow data from Facebook.
Her asked how a lot data was supplied by way of Cambridge Analytica in the recent Gujarat and north-east elections, and in upcoming elections in Karnataka to Congress. Amid a probe by way of the United States privacy watchdog and in UK over a possible breach of user confidentiality by way of Facebook, Prasad said the Indian executive absolutely supports free change of ideas on social media however any strive by way of social media sites, including Facebook, to influence India’s electoral process may not be tolerated.
“If want be, stringent motion can be taken,” Prasad said. Stating that 20 crore Indians had been the usage of Facebook, making it the company’s largest marketplace outside the United States, Prasad cautioned the social media giant and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of repercussions under the IT Act in case of any data breach.
Asked if the government would begin a probe on data use by way of Facebook, Prasad said that India had a regulator in the type of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), and explicit proceedings, if any, can be introduced under a structured investigation. “We have got a very tough mechanism available, we can look into it. But today, (via) this very stern statement I gave, let my caution be heard across the Atlantic in California,” he said.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra instructed journalists that the unlawful use of people’s data from social media could develop into the Congress’ “greatest rip-off” and added that the government would release a probe into the matter.
“It is a major security threat for the rustic and Congress will have to solution in this,” Prasad said. Prasad additionally warned Facebook of difficult motion if it was discovered interfering in India’s poll process. “Mr Mark Zuckerberg, you higher note the statement of the IT minister of India. We welcome FB profile in India, but when any data theft of Indians is finished via collusion of FB system, it shall no longer be tolerated. We have got stringent powers in the IT Act, we shall use them, including summoning you to India,” Prasad warned.
The controversy over CA getting access to the profiles of hundreds of thousands of FB customers and focused on them at the foundation of knowledge got, and claims by way of a senior reputable of the social media site that there have been several illegalities, has sent FB’s stock plummeting. “My query to Congress is whether to win elections the party depends upon data manipulation and theft of information,” Prasad said.
"What is the position of Cambridge Analytica in the social media profile of Rahul Gandhi?” IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked as the government regarded to hyperlink the primary opposition to the burgeoning controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica. Quoting media reports, Prasad alleged that Cambridge Analytica — reported by way of a bit of the media as being considered by way of Congress to lend a hand the 2019 marketing campaign — has been accused of the usage of bribes and intercourse employees to entrap politicians and scouse borrow data from Facebook.
Her asked how a lot data was supplied by way of Cambridge Analytica in the recent Gujarat and north-east elections, and in upcoming elections in Karnataka to Congress. Amid a probe by way of the United States privacy watchdog and in UK over a possible breach of user confidentiality by way of Facebook, Prasad said the Indian executive absolutely supports free change of ideas on social media however any strive by way of social media sites, including Facebook, to influence India’s electoral process may not be tolerated.
“If want be, stringent motion can be taken,” Prasad said. Stating that 20 crore Indians had been the usage of Facebook, making it the company’s largest marketplace outside the United States, Prasad cautioned the social media giant and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of repercussions under the IT Act in case of any data breach.
Asked if the government would begin a probe on data use by way of Facebook, Prasad said that India had a regulator in the type of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), and explicit proceedings, if any, can be introduced under a structured investigation. “We have got a very tough mechanism available, we can look into it. But today, (via) this very stern statement I gave, let my caution be heard across the Atlantic in California,” he said.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra instructed journalists that the unlawful use of people’s data from social media could develop into the Congress’ “greatest rip-off” and added that the government would release a probe into the matter.
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