Paytm refutes reports of sharing Indian users’ data with third parties
Technology | May 26, 2018 16:58 ISTA report was doing rounds on the social media that Paytm is sharing its users's data with third parties.
A report was doing rounds on the social media that Paytm is sharing its users's data with third parties.
The statement comes after some social media and online news channel reports suggested that key Aadhaar software was available in the black market which purportedly bypasses operators biometric authentication and facilitates making of Aadhaar cards without any documents.
UK based marketing analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has announced that it was shutting down and would file for insolvency in the United States and Britain after failing to recover from the Facebook data privacy scandal.
“No confirmed data leakage has been established or observed so far. As part of the data security and protection, EPFO has taken advance action by closing the server and host service through CSC pending vulnerability checks,” EPFO said.
The report says that Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then a psychology researcher with University of Cambridge and his company Global Science Research (GSR).
Facebook is embroiled in a widening scandal that a British data firm called Cambridge Analytica improperly gathered detailed information on its 87 million users.
While most users are from the US -- over 70 million – 5,62,455 Indian users' data has also been shared with Cambridge Analytica.
Zuckerberg also fired back at comments last week from Cook, who argued that Facebook got into trouble because of a business model focused on monetizing people’s data.
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