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Vaibhav Nikam
What Happens to Privacy After Pegasus?
02 Aug 2021
Secretly tracking the online activity of a mobile or laptop and crunching big data tell companies more about individuals than they would ever know.
PTI
CBI Files Case Against Cambridge Analytica, GSR for ‘Illegal Data Harvesting’
22 Jan 2021
The Facebook data of 5.62 lakh users was allegedly sold for commerical gains to Cambridge Analytica, which used it for profiling users and influencing elections in India, the complaint alleged.
Steven Hill
Can Facebook be Used to Steal an Election?
31 Oct 2020
How to rein in Facebook and social media platforms
Subodh Varma
Who Benefits? The Question Nobody’s Asking in the WhatsApp Hacking Case
03 Nov 2019
Snooping illegally on phones of lawyers and activists (and maybe others) is of use only to government.
Bappa Sinha
Propaganda and Perversion in the Digital Age
13 Aug 2019
BJP may have already done the surveys and focus group studies and concluded that selling Haryanvi or Bhojpuri (regions with low sex ratio) men the fantasy of marrying fair Kashmiri girls was probably…
Prabir Purkayastha
Hacking Elections: Tales From Far and Near
02 Aug 2019
The Netflix film, The Great Hack, focuses on Cambridge Analytica and the Trump elections, and also registers the role of a global right-wing network in influencing elections using big money and their…
PTI
US Trade Commission Sues Cambridge Analytica for Duping Facebook Users
25 Jul 2019
The UK-based data company is accused of acquiring data from up to 87 million Facebook profiles for use in political campaigns around the world.
Newsclick Report
Tech for Democracy Campaign Seeks Regulation of Digital Media Firms During Elections
25 Mar 2019
At an event held in Hyderabad on Saturday held by Swecha and FSMI, 15 organisations endorsed a charter of demands that was presented to the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana.
Peoples Dispatch
UK Digital Committee Report Slams Facebook
22 Feb 2019
The report states that the social media company has repeatedly breached privacy and competition laws, and also directs the parliament to impose statutory regulations on social media platforms.
Prabir Purkayastha
Threat to Democracy in the Age of Social or Anti-social Media
13 Dec 2018
The tsunami of disinformation and hatred unleashed on platforms like WhatsApp, powered by big money and washed “white” by electoral bonds, can overwhelm the electorate and endanger the democratic…