Facebook Data Sharing

New York state Attorney General Letitia James released a statement announcing the action on behalf of seven other states and the District of Columbia

Facebook, which has since tightened its privacy protections, allowed app developers broad access to its users' data

The CBI had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) in August 2018 after receiving a reference from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Facebook has been under fire for months over its privacy practices and role in the 2016 US presidential election

For years, Facebook gave many large technology companies special access to users' information

According to Facebook, it worked with partners to build messaging integrations into their apps so people could send messages to their Facebook friends

Washington, DC, Attorney General Karl Racine said Facebook misled users because it had known about the incident for two years before disclosing it

The data was obtained from Six4Three, an app developer that is currently in a legal dispute with Facebook

Only 53 per cent of Facebook employees said the company was making the world better, which is 19 per cent lower than last year

Facebook has reported that they are not aware of any misuse of information

Facebook had in April admitted that nearly 5,62,120 people in India were 'potentially affected' by its global data breach involving Cambridge Analytica

According to the information shared by Facebook, its partnership with Airtel is no longer in force

Facebook said that it implemented tougher sharing controls in 2014 and gave third-party app developers one year of time to comply with the new rules

If users did not notice the new default suggestion, they unwittingly sent their post to a broader audience than they had intended

At the moment, less than one in six people said they'd be likely to sell their data in a global survey of consumer attitudes published by ForgeRock in March

The company said the problem has been fixed, adding that it will notify the 14 million users who could have been affected

Facebook responded that Zuckerberg spent more than 10 hours responding to lawmakers' questions

Facebook has been responding to a global backlash about how it handles users' data, from lawmakers and privacy advocates in the US and Europe

The UK-based Cambridge Analytica, however, is yet to send its formal response to government's second notice

WhatsApp is in clear violation of the guidelines set by the NPCI, according to industry observers