Data leak: Ravi Shankar Prasad seeks Congress President's apology
What's the story
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today sought an apology from Congress president Rahul Gandhi for allegedly using Cambridge Analytica data to swing poll results and said "probity" demands that he should promise not to manipulate voters in the future. Prasad said that Cambridge Analytica's role in manipulating elections is clear and Facebook has assured "to stop it and maintain integrity of India's elections".
Twitter Post
Using Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's apology, Prasad sought Rahul's apology
Now that Cambridge Analytica‘s role in manipulating elections is clear Facebook has assured to stop it and maintain integrity of India’s elections, probity demands that @RahulGandhi should apologise promise not to manipulate voters and divide the society in future! https://t.co/xo4iJUJsBw
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) April 11, 2018
Data protection
Zuckerberg took responsibility for "not doing enough" to protect data
Yesterday, Zuckerberg apologized to the US Congress and took personal responsibility for "not doing enough" to protect Facebook's users' private data from being misused and manipulated. Earlier, Zuckerberg admitted making a "huge mistake" as personal data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, a figure higher than the previous estimate of 50 million.