Data breach: Govt may seek more details from Cambridge Analytica, Facebook

Electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad took a meeting with his senior officials on the data breach controversy involving social media platform Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA). 

Facebook admits the data of a little over half a million Indians was compromised, after being improperly shared with CA, a London-based data mining entity.

Last Wednesday, after a Union Cabinet meeting, the prime minister had asked Prasad for suitable action in the matter, so that such things do not recur.

Sources said before deciding what to do, the government was also considering the international implications, as both entities are based abroad. “Legal opinion