Data breach: Govt serves notice to Facebook,Cambridge Analytica

Government has served second set of notices to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook over the recent data breach after finding discrepancies between the earlier responses given by the two companies. 

The companies have been asked to reply to the additional queries by May 10.

Flagging the cryptic and evasive reply given by Cambridge Analytica to the first notice, the government has sought responses for five more posers from the company. 

There were discrepancies in the responses received earlier this month from the British data analytics firm and American social networking giant.It is self-evident that apart from being very cryptic, the unstated intention was to



conceal more than reveal, said the latest notice to Cambridge Analytica. 

The notice said that given the Facebook submission and following the public apology by the US giant, the onus now lies with Cambridge Analytica. 

While Facebook had admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were potentially affected by the data breach incident, Cambridge Analytica had claimed that it does not have any Facebook data on Indian citizens.

In its fresh notice to Cambridge Analytica now, the government has asked that what kind of data was collected in India and the research instruments used to capture such data.