Behind the curve: Facebook data theft underlines India's lax privacy laws

Harvesting user-data may be a breach of the user-agreement with Facebook or any other social media platform from where it is garnered

Cambridge Analytica (CA), a British firm, is alleged to have harvested the data of over 50 million Facebook users without their permission. It used that data to micro-target voters in the 2016 US presidential election. It included pushing out fake news and skewed information to the susceptible in order to manipulate opinion. The CA scandal was broken by a whistleblower and the firm is also under investigation for using similar techniques to manipulate the Brexit referendum. Since Wednesday, India’s political parties, too, have traded accusations that CA, along with its Indian associates, worked to manipulate some of the elections in