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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal conspiracy case against UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research for illegally harvesting personal data of Facebook (FB) users in India.
The action follows a preliminary inquiry which was initiated by the investigative agency in July 2018, based on the inputs received from the Ministry of Information and Technology (Meity)on the alleged data theft.
CBI, in the first information report (FIR) filed on January 19, stated that that Facebook reported the leak of personal data of nearly 562,000 Indians users by the UK data firm. The social media platform has
