NEW DELHI: The government is raring to advertise India as a big hub for knowledge research but will not tolerate any strive by companies to misuse knowledge to influence the democratic procedure, IT and regulation Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Tuesday.
The comments assume significance because the CBI has written to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research in connection with the unlawful private knowledge harvesting of Indians from the social networking platform. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the main points from those companies on knowledge collection exercise followed by them.
"We are keen to see that India becomes a big centre for data analysis but if any data company misuses data to influence democracy, we will act on it. We will not accept it," Prasad informed journalists right here.
Speaking on the sidelines of a cleanliness power as a part of 'Swachhta Abhiyan', Prasad noted that Facebook has already apologised, promising corrective action in the aftermath of the alleged knowledge breach episode, but Cambridge Analytica had not despatched follow-up responses after its initial reply on the issue.
"...So we sent it to the CBI for enquiry. Now the CBI will do its work...with fairness," the minister said.
Earlier this year, US-based social networking giant Facebook and British company Cambridge Analytica drew flak from customers in addition to governments around the globe after a knowledge leak scandal hit about 87 million customers.
Cambridge Analytica was once accused of harvesting private information of tens of millions of Facebook customers illegally to lend a hand political campaigns and influence polls in numerous nations, prompting Indian government to shoot off notices to the firms.
As it's, India is already in the technique of tightening knowledge protection rules and a high-level committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna has framed and submitted a draft private knowledge coverage Bill to the government.
The IT ministry is in the technique of looking for ideas and comments from the general public on the draft Bill, and is learnt to be interested in introducing it in the ensuing wintry weather consultation of Parliament.
The draft of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, restricts and imposes stipulations on the cross-border transfer of personal knowledge, and suggests putting in place of Data Protection Authority of India to prevent any misuse of personal information.
It additionally supplies for a penalty of Rs 15 crore or four in line with cent of the total worldwide turnover of any knowledge collection entity, including the state, for violation of personal knowledge processing provisions.
Failure to take suggested action on a knowledge safety breach can draw in a penalty of as much as Rs five crore or 2 in line with cent of turnover, whichever is higher, as in line with the draft provisions.
The comments assume significance because the CBI has written to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research in connection with the unlawful private knowledge harvesting of Indians from the social networking platform. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the main points from those companies on knowledge collection exercise followed by them.
"We are keen to see that India becomes a big centre for data analysis but if any data company misuses data to influence democracy, we will act on it. We will not accept it," Prasad informed journalists right here.
Speaking on the sidelines of a cleanliness power as a part of 'Swachhta Abhiyan', Prasad noted that Facebook has already apologised, promising corrective action in the aftermath of the alleged knowledge breach episode, but Cambridge Analytica had not despatched follow-up responses after its initial reply on the issue.
"...So we sent it to the CBI for enquiry. Now the CBI will do its work...with fairness," the minister said.
Earlier this year, US-based social networking giant Facebook and British company Cambridge Analytica drew flak from customers in addition to governments around the globe after a knowledge leak scandal hit about 87 million customers.
Cambridge Analytica was once accused of harvesting private information of tens of millions of Facebook customers illegally to lend a hand political campaigns and influence polls in numerous nations, prompting Indian government to shoot off notices to the firms.
As it's, India is already in the technique of tightening knowledge protection rules and a high-level committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna has framed and submitted a draft private knowledge coverage Bill to the government.
The IT ministry is in the technique of looking for ideas and comments from the general public on the draft Bill, and is learnt to be interested in introducing it in the ensuing wintry weather consultation of Parliament.
The draft of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, restricts and imposes stipulations on the cross-border transfer of personal knowledge, and suggests putting in place of Data Protection Authority of India to prevent any misuse of personal information.
It additionally supplies for a penalty of Rs 15 crore or four in line with cent of the total worldwide turnover of any knowledge collection entity, including the state, for violation of personal knowledge processing provisions.
Failure to take suggested action on a knowledge safety breach can draw in a penalty of as much as Rs five crore or 2 in line with cent of turnover, whichever is higher, as in line with the draft provisions.
India keen to be data analysis hub but won't tolerate data misuse: Ravi Shankar Prasad
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