Last Modified: Sat, Apr 07 2018. 11 14 PM IST
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook disclosed on Wednesday that data of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Photo: Reuters
1. Facebook says data compromise may exceed 50 million users
Facebook data of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in a blog post published on Wednesday. This is 37 million more than was previously reported in the media. Of the 87 million accounts, 70.63 million were in the US and 0.56 million were in India. Facebook also admitted a feature that allowed users to search by email or phone numbers could have been misused by entities scraping data to gather information on most of its 2 billion users.
4. Failure rate of iris scan higher than fingerprint scans
There was a failure rate of 6% in fingerprint scans and 8.5% in iris scans for authenticating Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority of India, which is in charge of the Aadhaar ecosystem, told the Supreme Court in a filing. An iris scan is explored as an additional option to authenticate Aadhaar when a fingerprint scan doesn’t work. The significant failure rates underscore the need to have exception-handling mechanisms when Aadhaar is used to give government services or benefits.
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