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Current Laws Inadequate To Tackle Black Money In Polls: Election Chief
Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said on Saturday that the present set of laws were "inadequate" to tackle the menace of black money in elections, and noted that Cambridge Analytica like "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the electoral process in the country.
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Social Media Platforms Can't Abuse Data To Influence Polls: Law Minister
Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said social media platforms should themselves weed out circulation of fake news and that the government will not tolerate abuse of data by companies for influencing elections in India.
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75 Percent Facebook Users in the US Remain as Active or More Since Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Survey
The poll found that about half of Facebook's American users said they had not recently changed the amount that they used the site, and another quarter said they were using it more.
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Three-Quarters Facebook Users As Active Or More Since Privacy Scandal, Says Survey
Most of Facebook's US users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about millions of accounts without owners' permission, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showed.
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Minister Wants A Promise From Rahul Gandhi After Mark Zuckerberg's Sorry
Hours after Mark Zuckerberg apologised over the hijacking of its user data by Cambridge Analytica, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Congress President Rahul Gandhi should also apologise for allegedly using the leaked data to swing poll results in India.
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Facebook's Major Focus Polls in India, Pakistan, and the US: CEO Zuckerberg
Terming 2018 a "big year" for elections, Zuckerberg said Facebook was enhancing its security features to prevent trolls from spreading information.
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Microsoft Helped During Indian Election, But Transparent About Data Collection: Official
Microsoft collaborated with Indian officials during elections and monitored activities at polling booths, an official of the global tech giant has said, asserting that the company is transparent about the collection of data run on its platforms.
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Facebook Asks Users if They Think It's 'Good for the World'
Facebook is asking users whether they think it's "good for the world" in a poll sent to an unspecified number of people.
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Whistleblower Spills More India Data, Parties Wanted Caste Info: 10 Facts
Cambridge Analytica, the company accused of massive data breach, worked on Indian political campaigns for years and also provided caste analysis for various parties, reveals a document released on Wednesday. The explosive details were tweeted by Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the role of Cambridge Analytica in data breach affectin...
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'Dread' Narendra Modi coming to power, say Indian-origin academics in open letter
Around 75 professors and other academics of Indian origin working at some of Britain's prestigious institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford universities and London School of Economics today issued an open letter, sharply attacking Narendra Modi and saying, "The idea of Modi in power fills us with dread".
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Queen Victoria or King James: people's choice for British royal baby
As Britain waits with bated breath for the arrival of Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child, a poll has revealed that Victoria and James are the most favoured names for the royal baby among the public.
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Kate Middleton voted perfect Bond girl
Kate Middleton has been voted the perfect Bond girl in a public poll to find the ideal female character for the 007 movies.
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Indian-origin grocer loses Cambridge chancellor poll
An Indian-origin local grocer Abdul Arain, who had stood for elections to become the 108th chancellor of the University of Cambridge, today lost to the official candidate Lord Sainsbury, who won beating two others.
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Current Laws Inadequate To Tackle Black Money In Polls: Election Chief
Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said on Saturday that the present set of laws were "inadequate" to tackle the menace of black money in elections, and noted that Cambridge Analytica like "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the electoral process in the country.
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Social Media Platforms Can't Abuse Data To Influence Polls: Law Minister
Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said social media platforms should themselves weed out circulation of fake news and that the government will not tolerate abuse of data by companies for influencing elections in India.
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75 Percent Facebook Users in the US Remain as Active or More Since Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Survey
The poll found that about half of Facebook's American users said they had not recently changed the amount that they used the site, and another quarter said they were using it more.
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Three-Quarters Facebook Users As Active Or More Since Privacy Scandal, Says Survey
Most of Facebook's US users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about millions of accounts without owners' permission, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showed.
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Minister Wants A Promise From Rahul Gandhi After Mark Zuckerberg's Sorry
Hours after Mark Zuckerberg apologised over the hijacking of its user data by Cambridge Analytica, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Congress President Rahul Gandhi should also apologise for allegedly using the leaked data to swing poll results in India.
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Facebook's Major Focus Polls in India, Pakistan, and the US: CEO Zuckerberg
Terming 2018 a "big year" for elections, Zuckerberg said Facebook was enhancing its security features to prevent trolls from spreading information.
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Microsoft Helped During Indian Election, But Transparent About Data Collection: Official
Microsoft collaborated with Indian officials during elections and monitored activities at polling booths, an official of the global tech giant has said, asserting that the company is transparent about the collection of data run on its platforms.
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Facebook Asks Users if They Think It's 'Good for the World'
Facebook is asking users whether they think it's "good for the world" in a poll sent to an unspecified number of people.
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Whistleblower Spills More India Data, Parties Wanted Caste Info: 10 Facts
Cambridge Analytica, the company accused of massive data breach, worked on Indian political campaigns for years and also provided caste analysis for various parties, reveals a document released on Wednesday. The explosive details were tweeted by Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the role of Cambridge Analytica in data breach affectin...
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'Dread' Narendra Modi coming to power, say Indian-origin academics in open letter
Around 75 professors and other academics of Indian origin working at some of Britain's prestigious institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford universities and London School of Economics today issued an open letter, sharply attacking Narendra Modi and saying, "The idea of Modi in power fills us with dread".
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Queen Victoria or King James: people's choice for British royal baby
As Britain waits with bated breath for the arrival of Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child, a poll has revealed that Victoria and James are the most favoured names for the royal baby among the public.
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Kate Middleton voted perfect Bond girl
Kate Middleton has been voted the perfect Bond girl in a public poll to find the ideal female character for the 007 movies.
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Indian-origin grocer loses Cambridge chancellor poll
An Indian-origin local grocer Abdul Arain, who had stood for elections to become the 108th chancellor of the University of Cambridge, today lost to the official candidate Lord Sainsbury, who won beating two others.
