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He will be VOL.63 the ADG - Western Seaboard of the Coast Guard, and will be based out of Mumba If govt. engaged Israeli agencies to snoop, it’s a violation: Priyanka Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said if the BJP or the government engaged Israeli agencies to snoop on citizens, then it was a violation of human rights and called it a scandal. “If the BJP or the government has engaged Israeli agencies to snoop into the phones of journalists, lawyers, activists and politicians, it is a gross violation of human rights and a scandal with grave ramifications on national security. Waiting for the government’s response,” she tweeted. Pleaaspirantforum.com in court Her comments come a day after the Congress urged the Supreme Court to take suomotu notice on the revelation made by messaging platform WhatsApp that a software program, Pegasus, developed by an Israeli firm was used to hack into the phones of journalists, activists, academics and politicians. , while the government asked WhatsApp to explain the National breach, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government was committed to maintaining the privacy of citizens. Taking a dig at the government, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “The Govt seeking WhatsAop’s response on who bought Pegasus to spy on Visit aspirantforum.com for Guidance and Study Material for IAS Exam aspirantforum.com THE CRUX OF THE HINDU AND PIB Indian citizens, is like Modi asking Dassault who made money on the sale of RAFALE jets to India!”. NOVEMBER 2019 No light down the rabbit hole of online political advertising VOL.63 Despite a code of ethics, sources of three top-spending Facebook pages, with ads backing the BJP and the Shiv Sena, remain unclear While Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said his company would no longer accept political advertisements, the online ecosystem of such advertising is dominated by Facebook and Google. Facebook gets much more advertiser aspirantforum.com interestaspirantforum.com because of the level of targeting available, as well as the possibility of engagement through comments, likes, and shares. However, as more and more advertisers, including politicians and political parties, embrace this advertisement platform, keeping a tally on election spending becomes an issue. In India, since February, when the data became available, advertisers on social issues, elections or politics had spent Rs. National 39.1 crore on Facebook, and political advertisements on Google amounted to Rs. 29.3 crore. Despite the Election Commission and web platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter agreeing to a “voluntary code of ethics”, analysis of Visit aspirantforum.com for Guidance and Study Material for IAS Exam aspirantforum.com THE CRUX OF THE HINDU AND PIB data on online advertising for the recent Maharahstra Assembly election suggests that identifying the sources of such campaigns is not easy. The accompanying table shows some of the top spenders who targeted NOVEMBER their ads at Facebook users in Maharashtra from August 1 to October 29. 2019 Three of the entities — Shiv Sena, BJP- Maharashtra, and Indian National VOL.63 Congress-Maharashtra — have verified pages, and the communication agencies working for them or the party behind the pages are listed as advertisers. However, the identities of the other three entities are not clear, with inactive phone numbers. For the top spender, the page ‘DistoyFarakShivshahiParat’, loosely meaning ‘Can see the difference, Shivaji-style rule is back’, the phone number given is inactive. The address is also incomplete, mentioning just a street in Nagpur, and the website does not exist. While ‘My First Vote ForModi’ has a functioning website, the phone number listed is inactive. Interestingly, the address given is that of the BJP’s headquarters in Delhi. There were no responses to emails sent to the ids of the advertisers of these two pages. aspirantforum.com ‘Kashmir crackdown will affect Indian democracy’ Suspension of democratic rights in Jammu and Kashmir will affect prospects of democracy in the rest of India, participants at a discussion on the Kashmir issue said . The meeting, organised by the Centre for Peace and Progress, at the India International Centre here, was part of a series of Kashmir-related National debates planned across the country. “The issue is not what is happening in Kashmir. The more important issue is what is happening in the rest of India,” said former IAS officer KannanGopinathan, who resigned from government service in protest Visit aspirantforum.com for Guidance and Study Material for IAS Exam aspirantforum.com THE CRUX OF THE HINDU AND PIB against the lockdown imposed on Kashmir since August 5. Mr.Gopinathan said the government has portrayed the lockdown as the only viable option to avoid terrorism and loss of life. “That is what the country has been told. In NOVEMBER reality a government should not ask us to choose between liberty and right 2019 of expression. A government that wants us to choose between liberty and VOL.63 expression is incompetent,” he said. Addressing the gathering, Mani Shankar Aiyar, former RajyaSabha MP, said there is a need to protect relations between Srinagar and Delhi and ties between Srinagar and other parts of India. “I did not have the courage to protest against the Emergency in the 1970s. 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