{"id":298509,"date":"2018-06-08T14:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298509"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:17:43","slug":"facebook-privacy-goof-up-india-gives-june-20-deadline-another-bug-affects-14-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/facebook-privacy-goof-up-india-gives-june-20-deadline-another-bug-affects-14-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Privacy Goof Up: India Gives June 20 Deadline; Another \u2018Bug&#8217; Affects 14 Million Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian government has sought explanation from Facebook by\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_759486716\"><span class=\"aQJ\">June 20<\/span><\/span>\u00a0over reports of sharing of users&#8217; information without their consent with mobile manufacturers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRecently there are media reports claiming that Facebook has agreements which are allowing phone and other device manufacturers\u2019 access to its users\u2019 personal information, including that of their friends without taking their explicit consent. The government of India is deeply concerned about reports of such lapses violations,&#8221; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government added in its statement that &#8220;in response to earlier notices regarding the breach of personal data relating to the Cambridge Analytica row, Facebook had apologised and given strong assurances to the government that they would take sincere efforts to protect the privacy of users\u2019 data on the platform.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Therefore the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has also asked for a detailed factual report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Statement said, &#8220;However, such reports raise uncomfortable questions about the assurances made by Facebook.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This comes in backdrop of the meeting of parliamentary standing committee on information and technology attended by Union home secretary Rajiv Gauba and National Cyber Security chief Dr Gulshan Rai, along with other cyber security and intelligence officers which took place in May. Experts discussed citizens&#8217; data security and privacy issues after the Cambridge Analytica row and Facebook users&#8217; data breach issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, on June 7 the Facebook said that their 14 million users who thought they were posting a message just to friends or smaller groups may have actually been sharing their posts or messages widely with the general public due to a software bug that was active from May 18 to May 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298510 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/fb-goofup-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Starting today we are letting everyone affected know and asking them to review any posts they made during that time,&#8221; Erin Egan, chief privacy officer said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We&#8217;d like to apologize for this mistake,&#8221; Egan said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government has sought explanation from Facebook by\u00a0June 20\u00a0over reports of sharing of users&#8217; information without their consent with mobile manufacturers. \u201cRecently there are media reports claiming that Facebook has agreements which are allowing phone and other device manufacturers\u2019 access to its users\u2019 personal information, including that of their friends without taking their explicit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2142],"tags":[1120,600,1450,2141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299652,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509\/revisions\/299652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}