Facebook faces more questions from CBI on data theft of Indian users

The CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) in August 2018 after receiving a reference from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Company News: The Central Bureau of Inves­tigation (CBI) has sent a second round of inquiries to Facebook (FB), looking for additional data on the supposed robbery of information of Indian clients of the person to person communication site. This pursues Facebook's underlying answers on the issue to the CBI.
The organization was not happy with the reaction, which was progressively about the procedures in regards to protection of individual information, it is educated.
The CBI had enlisted a starter enquiry (PE) in August 2018 in the wake of getting a reference from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The ongoing inquiry was raised on some particular focuses dependent on the proof gath­ered by the test office. Sources up to date said the inquiries were around the charges of gathering individual information of Facebook clients without their assent for political purposes.
An email sent to Facebook did not evoke any reaction. Other than Facebook, the CBI had likewise looked for answer from British consultancy firm Cambridge Anal­ytica and Global Science Research (GSR). In an underlying answer, Analytica den­ied the claims of rupturing the information of Indians, said a source.Read More

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