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In India, its largest market by users, the government had to ask the social network to understand the impact on its users in the country.
While India has provisions in the IT Act for intermediaries such as Facebook to report any cyber attact, it is not being implemented, say experts, adding that a data protection law in the country would have deterred companies from delaying the information to the government.
“Any breach that impacts Indian users have to be reported immediately to the regulator, in this case CERT. The existing IT Act has those provisions,” said Pavan Duggal, cyber law expert, who worked on India’s cyber law. Facebook has an India entity and is governed by local laws of the country.
He said while the right to privacy has been mandated by the Supreme Court, it is applied only for state actors and not private entities such as Facebook. “A privacy law would make it all encompassing bringing all private companies that has any connection with an Indian user ,” said Duggal.
Last week, the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) asked Facebook to give an update on the extent of damage caused by the breach on Indian users. The social network has its largest userbase in India with about 270 million at the end of July, according to Statista website.
In the latest Facebook breach, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the code of the ‘View As’ feature that lets users see what their profile look like to others. Facebook has now fixed the vulnerability and launched an investigation. It also logged out the 50 million affected users and an additional 40 million after the revelations.
Facebook said it had taken immediate action and informed its users and advertisers and secured their accounts.
It did not disclose how many Indian users have been impacted in the breach as it was still investigating the matter. “We are in touch with Govt of India, to share preliminary information about the security issue we announced on September 28. We have taken immediate action and informed all our users, advertisers and secured their accounts,” a spokesperson said. “We are still working through the details of impacted users in India and will release more information once we have concluded our investigations.”
After the breach came to light, the Menlo-Park headquarterd firm informed law enforcement authorities in US and communicated the breach to the Irish Data Protection Commission. The European agency has said less than 10% of the 50 million users in the region have been impacted in the breach The company has also been battling a series of regulatory hurdles in the country. While the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an inquiry over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook-owned Whatsapp has been under tremendous government scrutiny for stopping spread of fake news and rumours on its platform, which have led to several deaths in the country.
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在印度,其最大市场用户,政府不得不向社交网络了解影响其用户。
而印度在这法案规定了Facebook等中介机构报告任何网络实在,它没有被实现,专家说,数据保护法律的国家会阻止公司推迟政府的信息。
“任何违约,影响印度用户必须立即报告给监管机构,在这种情况下CERT。现有的行为有那些规定,“Pavan Duggal说,网络法律专家,曾在印度的网络法律。Facebook有一个印度的实体,是由当地国家的法律。
他说尽管隐私权规定最高法院,它是仅适用于国家的演员,而不是私人实体如Facebook。“隐私法将所有包含将私营企业,与印度用户有联系,”Duggal说。
上周,电子和信息技术(Meity)要求Facebook对违约所造成的损害的程度在印度用户。《社交网络》有其最大的用户群在印度约有2.7亿在7月底,根据Statista网站。
在最新的Facebook违反,攻击者利用漏洞的代码“认为”功能,用户可以看到他们的个人资料是什么样子的。Facebook已经固定的脆弱性和展开了调查。它还记录了5000万用户和一个额外的4000万年披露的影响。
Facebook表示,它已采取立即行动,告知其用户和广告商,并确保其账户安全。
它没有透露有多少印度用户在违约的影响仍在调查此事。“我们与印度政府联系,分享的初步信息安全问题我们在9月28日宣布。我们已经立即采取了行动,通知所有用户,广告商,并确保其账户安全,”发言人说。“我们仍在影响用户的细节在印度和将发布更多的信息一旦我们得出结论我们的调查。”
违反曝光后,门洛帕克市headquarterd公司通知执法当局在美国和爱尔兰的违反数据保护委员会沟通。欧洲机构说不到10%的5000万用户在该地区已经违反公司的影响也已与一系列的监管障碍。虽然中央调查局(CBI)—剑桥丑闻展开调查,Facebook-owned Whatsapp一直承受着巨大的政府审查阻止虚假新闻和谣言的传播平台,已导致数人死亡。乐动扑克
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