The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India on Friday (January 22) filed a case against the political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica for illegal harvesting of personal data of 5.62 lakh Facebook users in the country. In the same case, the CBI also named Global Science Research Ltd.
A report by the news agency ANI said, “CBI registers a case against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd for “illegal harvesting of personal data from Facebook users in India”.”
Many media platforms from all over the world in March 2018 brought to everyone’s notice how the UK-based firm was used for harvesting private information of over 50 million Facebook users without their permission across the globe.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in July 2018 told the Parliament that a CBI probe would take place into the data theft case involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica is a political consulting firm from the UK that was started in 2013….