New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed the case against the UK based Cambridge Analytica company and Global Science Research Ltd for using data of the Indian Facebook users for commercial purposes.
The officials said that “Global Science Research had created an app “this is your digital life” which was authorised by Facebook to collect specific datasets of its users for research and academic purposes in 2014.”
The company then entered into a criminal conspiracy with Cambridge Analytica, allowing it to use the data harvested by it for commercial purposes, the officials said.
Facebook remains always alert for its good image and data security.
In 2016-17, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research had submitted its certificates to Facebook and these companies were not allowed to use “this mydigitallife” app’s data for commercial purpose.
However, the CBI enquiry did not find any evidence of any such destruction, according to the officials.
“The enquiry prima facie established that Global Science Research Ltd, UK dishonestly and fraudulently accessed data of app users of “this is your digital life” and their Facebook friends,” an official said, citing the FIR.
Cybercrime ration steadily increasing in India and around 64 percent cybercrime cases increased in 2019. The NCRB’s data stated that 4,4546 cases of cybercrimes were registered in 2019 as compared to 28248 in 2018.
The government of India and local police are steadily trying to solve the cybercrime cases and reduce the cyber activities, but cybercrime activities from reputed Companies are unbelievable.
_Vinayak