Think tank asks panel to probe Facebook's lobbying practices in India

It asks the panel to "initiate necessary effective action before the general elections"

A day after The Guardian reported Facebook’s lobbying practices against data privacy legislation in several countries, including India, a Centre for Account­ability and Systemic Change (CASC) has written to Parlia­ment’s standing committee on information technology (IT) to look at the lobbying activities of social media firms in India. 

The Guardian reported on Saturday about a “secretive global lobbying operation targeting hundreds of legislators and regulators in an attempt to procure influence across the world, including in the UK, US, Canada, India, Vietnam, Arge­ntina, Brazil, Malaysia and all 28 states of the EU”. These included efforts to change the European General Data