Govt Won’t Tolerate Misuse of Data to Influence Polls: IT Minister
IT Minister Ravi Shankar has warned social media companies against misusing user's data to influence upcoming 2019 elections, saying that it would no longer be tolerated.
Moreover, the government is also looking forward to Justice Srikrishna Committee report on data protection and law. Speaking in the context, Prasad added,
“We won’t tolerate misuse of data to influence elections. While the data of Indians has to be protected at any cost, India should also develop itself as a hub for data analysis.”
The statement from IT Ministry comes in the wake of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal wherein data of 5.62 lakh Indian users was compromised among 87 Mn global users.
Denouncing such misuse of data, the minister vehemently proclaimed,
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