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Facebook faces more questions from CBI on data theft of Indian users

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

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Shrimi Choudhary New Delhi
The Central Bureau of Inves­tigation (CBI) has sent a second round of questions to Facebook (FB), seeking further information on the alleged theft of data of Indian users of the social networking site. This follows Facebook’s initial replies on the matter to the CBI. 

The agency was not satisfied with the response, which was more about the processes regarding privacy of personal data, it is learnt. 

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

The recent query was raised on some specific points based on the evidence gath­ered

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