In the letters sent to the companies, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the details of data collection exercise adapted ...

Union Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had told Rajya Sabha last month that the probe will be handed over to the CBI.

Facebook had in April this year admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were "potentially affected" by the global data breach involv...

He said the government has ordered a CBI investigation into alleged misuse of data of Indian Facebook users by British political consultanc...

Cambridge Analytica is at the heart of the case involving alleged breach of Facebook user data seeking information about its clients in Ind...

Lawmakers also quizzed Nix about a secret recording of him saying the UK firm's online campaign played a decisive role in the US Presidenti...

A spokesperson of the social media giant said Facebook is grateful to the Indian government for giving it an opportunity to address concern...

The UK-based data analytics and political consulting firm has been under fire in various countries for allegedly harvesting data from almos...

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has since been summoned for congressional hearings by the US government where he had to face a barrage of to...

Facebook has partnered with BOOM, an independent fact checking initiative for a pilot in Karnataka to check the "false news" on its platfor...

The IT minister said that Cambridge Analytica's role in manipulating elections is clear, and that Rahul Gandhi should apologise for alleged...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had promised to show everyone a tool at the top of the News Feed with the apps they have used and an easy way ...

FB said that “a total of 562,455 people in India” were potentially affected by the unauthorised sharing of data — mined by Kogan — with Cam...

Info of over half a million of Indian users may have been improperly shared with the UK-based firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has admitt...

Analytica has been accused of harvesting personal information of over millions of Facebook users illegally to influence polls in several co...

In its earlier notice issued to Cambridge Analytica, the government had sought details on whether they have been engaged in any assignment ...

The social network has come under fire after claims that data of 50 million users was used to manipulate voters by a firm that worked on Tr...