Ime Archibong, VP of Product Partnerships Facebook has reported yesterday, 14 May 2018, that FB has suspended 200 more Apps functioning on Facebook apprehending data misuse by them. Earlier Marc Zuckerberg has made clear before US Senators, that FB had concerns about individual apps and they would audit them — and any app that either refused or failed an audit would be banned from Facebook.

According to FB, the investigation and audit process is in full swing, and it has two phases. First, a comprehensive review to identify every app that had access to Facebook user’s data. And second, where FB have concerns, FB will conduct interviews, make requests for information (RFI) — which ask a series of detailed questions about the app and the data it has access to — and perform audits that may include on-site inspections.

The release further reports, “We have large teams of internal and external experts working hard to investigate these apps as quickly as possible. To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended — pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data. Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via FB website. It will show people if they or their friends installed an app that misused data before 2015 — just as FB did for Cambridge Analytica. There is a lot more work to be done to find all the apps that may have misused people’s Facebook data – and it will take time. We are investing heavily to make sure this investigation is as thorough and timely as possible. We will keep you updated on our progress.”

So it’s clear that 200 more apps have been primarily identified by FB investigation team involved in unethical practises and still all the apps investigation is not complete. This number is certainly to increase. Now if one single app of Mr. Kogan can threaten 87 millions users’ data out of 200 million users of FB, then what could be number of users, whose data might be compromised, through these 200 apps?
This acknowledgment of FB should be seen as an eye-opener by governments across the world and they should immediately review their privacy laws and act proactively for protection of data of the citizen. In pursuit of free information we have made huge mistake by using these social media apps and now will be required to pay heavy price in coming days.
And the real question is, if these 200 apps have also sold our data then what happens? Whom should we held liable for the data breach? Civil and Criminal action should be initiated against whom? How can we consider ourselves safe in cyberspace? Who will ensure safety and security of our data in cyberspace?

Hope we are able to find out answers to above questions.

Its my sincere appeal to Government of India for not providing any such permissions to Facebook/Whatsapp. There are various issues clubbed together in this appeal.

The first and foremost objection for such opposition is the way Facebook as principal and whatsapp as its subsidiary is dealing with Government of India.In matters of finding out various solutions for curbing fake news issues,this company has came out openly rejecting Government’s request stating its against privacy laws in USA. If this company’s main alignment is towards following the laws of USA then what is the guarantee that in matters of financial transactions this company will obey and follow laws laid down by Reserve Bank of India or any other institution in India? Are these companies submitting themselves to Indian Jurisdiction? How many Facebook and Whatsapp users presently know about their submission to which country’s laws.The way Marc Zuckerberg is responding in US Senate as well as in EU it makes this fact clear that BREAK THE RULES is motto of this company and which has only one motto of ruling the world through social media then and through economic ruling now.

We must understand the ill-intentions behind this payment feature.A company having its monopoly over most of the population of world through social media and which can influence the mindsets to topple the various regimes and change the entire mindset of the population, if got opportunity to handle the finances of the population it will give huge amount of weaponry in its hands which no government in world would be able to fight.

A company having its budget equivalent with almost 70% countries in the world if get opportunity to enter financial sector in India will further become more stronger and practically will influence choices/thinking/liking habits of 85% of the worlds population.

We have been proudly saying that we are fastest growing economy in world and I certainly foresee a threat to this fastest growing economy by this company called Facebook.

There would be certainly questions to this logic ,as I am no authority on Economic affairs but my limited study taught me that “POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY”.

A company with its dominant position in social media if got the booster of financial transactions from country like India,it would be disaster for democracies in the world and those democracies could be mere puppets dancing on tunes of Facebook.

Its very positive and appropriate move by Government of India to deny the permission. Zuckerberg’s stock lost almost $17 billion within an hour after the company reported slow users’ growth in Q2 2018, said “we’ve broadened our focus to building this [Payments feature] for other countries so we can give more people this ability faster”.

So the ambition is very clear to rule the world through social media as well as Payment feature and Government of India should think in directions of not encouraging monopoly of this Foreign company in Payment sector.

Another objection to this company is in regards with Data security and Privacy.Time and again issues of Data Breach have been surfaced about Facebook and they have accepted.acknowledged the same and remained non-committal about the protection of Data. This company is facing huge legal battles for Data Breaches and may be required to pay huge compensations. So when financial feature was not integral part of this company,so many data breaches occurred,How this company can be trusted when it will be operating solely on Financial Data?

A company,whose sole foundation in based on Data sale,whats guarantee that it will not sale the Financial Data and revert back to its apology strategy?