The changes won’t affect Facebook’s privacy policies or the types of data it gathers on users.
"Kya Baat hai @RahulGandhi Ji.. Congress ka Haath, Cambridge Analytica ke Saath!" Smriti Irani tweeted.
The government seeks to know if the personal data of Indian voters has been compromised by Cambridge Analytica.
Wylie claims SCL India has a database of over 600 districts and 7 lakh villages.
Christopher Wylie said that Dan Muresan, who had worked on the Indian project, was suspected to have been poisoned in his Kenyan hotel room in 2012 after a deal went sour.
Christopher Wylie, has nothing to do with Congress or Indian politics, but his revelations could be embarrassing for India's oldest political party.
Wylie said that Trump's election was one of the major reasons he blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica's data practices.
"This has exposed Rahul Gandhi who was denying all along. Congress and Rahul Gandhi must now apologize," Prasad said.
A week ago, after the controversial leak of private information on millions of users came to light, press reports said that the FTC was investigating whether Facebook violated the terms of a 2011 consent agreement.
The notice came after reports that political parties had used the data analytics firm during elections.
The London-based elections consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which engages in data mining and analysis for electoral processes, has been accused of harvesting and using the Facebook data of millions of users.
Facebook, which has over two billion users globally, including over 200 million from India, has been in the eye of the storm over harvesting of data of millions of users by Cambridge Analytica that is linked to Donald Trump's campaign.
In an interview with The New York Times, Zuckerberg referred to the artificial intelligence (AI) tools deployed by Facebook to detect fake accounts trying to manipulate news and influence the elections.
"Problem: 39 Indians dead; Govt on the mat, caught lying. Solution: Invent story on Congress & Data Theft. Result: Media networks bite bait; 39 Indians vanish from radar. Problem solved," Gandhi tweeted on Thursday.
Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook has a “responsibility” to protect its users’ data and if it fails, “we don’t deserve to serve you.”
Top News
Latest News
