40 government departments are using a social media surveillance tool – and little is known of it

The limited information publicly available on the AASMA tool suggests it can track social media profiles, devices and their locations.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Sep 04, 2018 · 09:00 am

Video: Will the draft data protection bill protect your right to privacy? Probably not

The draft Bill authorises the State to collect data without the consent of the person. And doesn’t put any checks on Aadhaar.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 30, 2018 · 04:05 pm

The draft data protection bill is a step forward – but nowhere close to what India needs

The committee’s report is the most comprehensive undertaking of data protection yet, but still falls short.

Smitha Krishna Prasad

· Jul 29, 2018 · 08:00 am

Indian government requested for data over 12,000 times in second half of 2017, says Facebook

Only the United States made more requests during that period, around 32,700.

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· May 17, 2018 · 11:59 am

Mapped: The array of election-related work done by Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm globally

So far, the focus has been on CA’s impact in the US and UK, but SCL Elections claims to have a far larger footprint.

Devjyot Ghoshal, qz.com

· Mar 31, 2018 · 03:12 pm

Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm SCL proposed a massive political machine for India’s 2014 polls

SCL claimed to employ 300 permanent staff and 1,400 consultant staff prior to the country’s 2014 general elections, according to documents obtained by Quartz.

Itika Sharma Punit, qz.com

· Mar 30, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Cambridge Analytica scandal: Calls to #DeleteFacebook won’t make the social network go away

Young people are abandoning Facebook and calls to delete profiles are growing over the alleged exploitation of data for political campaigns.

Amy Binns, The Conversation

· Mar 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

New Firefox extension will stop Facebook from tracking users’ online activity, says Mozilla

Users will be able to access the social media site on a separate ‘container tab’, which will hide their Facebook identity from other websites.

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· Mar 28, 2018 · 05:14 pm

United States: Three users sue Facebook for storing their call and message logs

The social media giant has admitted to logging calls and text messages, but only from those Android users who allowed its application to access them.

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· Mar 28, 2018 · 01:52 pm

Facebook stored users’ phone call and message logs in older Android versions, says report

A man from New Zealand found the logs recently when he downloaded his personal information archive on Facebook.

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· Mar 25, 2018 · 02:52 pm

‘Lawless law minister spreading white lies’: Congress says it never worked with Cambridge Analytica

Ravi Shankar Prasad had linked the party with the British firm accused of illegally using private Facebook data.

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· Mar 21, 2018 · 05:19 pm

Ravi Shankar Prasad accuses Congress of having links with Cambridge Analytica amid data breach row

The Union minister warned Facebook and other social media sites of strong action if attempts were made to influence the country’s electoral process.

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· Mar 21, 2018 · 03:16 pm