Fri, Mar 23, 2018
On Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad's warning to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged that BJP leaders were preparing the ground for throttling social media."They are warning Facebook owner that even he can be summoned. The government should tell us if it has the power, why is it not acting against fugitives like Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya," he said.
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Thu, Mar 22, 2018
India had on Wednesday warned social media giant Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of "stringent action" including summoning him over "misuse" of data to allegedly influence electoral process. Amid allegations of misuse of personal data for political purposes by Facebook, the BJP had also hit out at Congress accusing it of compromising national security by reportedly roping in political data analytics firm CA to run its 2019 election campaign.
Mark Zuckerberg comments came amidst the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the British data firm, which has ties to President Donald Trump's campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge. Zuckerberg said Facebook executives "have some sense of the different things that we need to get in front of."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ,yesterday, admitted to making "mistakes" and said he was "happy" to answer questions about the scandal before the US Congress even as India launched an offensive against the company over the scandal. "...We've seen abuse of our platform and the misuse of people's data, and we know we need to do more. We have a responsibility to everyone who uses Facebook to make sure their privacy is protected," Facebook said in a blogpost. It vowed to set a "higher standard for how developers build on Facebook, what people should expect from them, and, most importantly, from us".
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