The Central Bureau of Investigation has written to UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research (GSR) and Facebook, seeking information as part of the probe into alleged data theft of Indian Facebook users.
About a month ago, on a reference from the IT Ministry, the agency had instituted a preliminary enquiry to determine whether GSR and Cambridge Analytica had illegally harvested and misused the data of Indian Facebook users.
“It is alleged that GSR got the data and supplied it to Cambridge Analytica,” a CBI official had said.
In April, admitting data pilferage by other agencies, Facebook had said that about 5.62 lakh Indians might have been potentially affected in the Cambridge Analytica case.
Responding to a notice, Cambridge Analytica had earlier said it did not have any Facebook data on Indian citizens. To a second notice, Facebook informed the government that Cambridge Analytica had violated its policy. Cambridge Analytica, however, did not respond to the second notice.
