CBI files case on Cambridge Analytica, GSRL for Facebook data theft
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New Delhi, January 22: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed case against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd for illegal harvesting of personal data from Facebook users in India. It is believed that data of around 5.26 lakh users has been managed by Cambridge Analyticaa via GSRL. The agency has also named Global Science Research (GSRL), another company based out of that country, in the same case.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament today, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted that there will be a CBI probe into the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data theft case.
My book on AI discusses Cambridge Analytica’s theft as just one example of this crisis of national security. It is meant to educate Indians on the profound subject that has not been fully understood till now. https://t.co/qBGZmdDdi9 https://t.co/yH1uLcnHnz
— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) January 22, 2021
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 IT ministry had shot off letters to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018 seeking clarification on the issue from them after the data breach came to light.
The ministry’s move had come after Christopher Wylie, who blew the lid off the scam involving mining of Facebook user data to manipulate elections, tweeted details that claim to expose the British consultancy’s work in India dating back to 2003.
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