EDITORIAL (22 DECEMBER 2018)
Subsidiary (adj+) सहायक,assistant
VOCABULARY of “Move fast and fix things”
Facilitating (v+) आसान कर देना,making easy
Altruistic (adj+) परोपकारी, benevolent
Blitzkrieg (n-) बमवर्ाा, military campaign
Conglomerate (n+) समहू , group
Deferral (n-) स्थगन, postponement
Subtle (adj+) सक्ष्ू म, minute
Cynical (adj-) ननिंदक, misanthropist
Whodunnit (n-) हत्या का रहस्य, murder mystery
Gridlocked (adj/v-) कनिन नस्थनि, traffic jam
Harness (v-) उपयोग करना, use
Bluster (v-) धमकाना, talk in a loud, aggressive way
Plea (n-) िका , दलील, appeal
Inference (n-) अनमु ान, guess
Move fast and fix things
Individual users’ privacy cannot be safeguarded on platforms
such as Facebook without institutional reform…
Facebook’s motto was to “move fast and break things”. By now
we have all heard various variations of it to mock the social
networking platform which is identified globally for privacy
breaches and misinformation campaigns — even interfering in
the election processes of major democracies.
Individual users’ privacy cannot be safeguarded on platforms
such as Facebook without institutional reform…
The latest in this torrent of disclosures is the investigation by The
New York Times documenting a range of private deals struck by
Facebook for reciprocal sharing of user data with the knowledge
of top management.
Some deals permitted access even to private chats.
Scandals unnoticed…
Even prior to the disclosures by Cambridge Analytica, Indian civil
society activists had fought against Facebook very publicly on
net neutrality.
The company had proposed to offer users without Internet on
their phones a platform called “Free Basics”, with a bouquet of
essential websites.
This deal was opposed on grounds of net neutrality by those who
recognised that Facebook would become a gatekeeper to the
Internet.
This was appealed against in the Supreme Court.
The apex court sensed the seriousness in this plea and
announced that a Constitution Bench would be constituted.
When in August 2017 the right to privacy judgment came, there
was hope that it would lead to greater accountability with the
horizontal application to private platforms such as WhatsApp
and Facebook.
Instead, as documented in an order in September 2017, the
Union government submitted it had constituted a data
protection committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge,
Justice B.N. Srikrishna, on the same issue.
In a sense, this amounts to pushing for a deferral of the hearing.
The WhatsApp-Facebook case is still pending in the Supreme
Court.
Cambridge Analytica alarm…
By March 2018 the Cambridge Analytica exposé gathered steam.
Blockbuster reports by The New York Times and The Observer
documented the compromising of personal data of Facebook
users to micro-target them with subtle forms of political
campaigning without their knowledge.
This was reportedly aimed at influencing their voting preferences and the Q.9 Current chief minister of Manipur ?
outcome of elections. 1. Sarbananda Sonowal 2. N. Biren Singh
Q.1 What is the full form of ‘NALSA’ ? 3. Biplab Kumar Deb 4. Zoramthanga
1. National Legal Services Association 5. Neiphiu Rio
2. Nation Legal Services Authority Ans: 2
3. National Legal Sample Authority Q.10 Sarbananda Sonowal ?
4. National Legal Services Authority Q.11 Biplab Kumar Deb ?
5. National Legal Surveillance Authority Q.12 Zoramthanga ?
Ans: 4 Q.13 Neiphiu Rio ?
Q.2 Who is current Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment ? Q.14 Which poisonous gas, which ultimately leaked and caused the
1. Anant Geete 2. Jual Oram Bhopal tragedy ?
3. Dharmendra Pradhan 4. Radha Mohan Singh 1. Methyl Isocyanide 2. Methyl Isocyanate
5. Thaawar Chand Gehlot 3. Ethyl Isocyanate 4. Hydrogen Isocyanate
Ans: 5 5. None of these
Q.3 Anant Geete ? Ans: 2
Q.4 Jual Oram ? Q.15 When did the disaster in Bhopal, India take place ?
Q.5 Dharmendra Pradhan ? 1. 3rd Dec, 1984 2. Midnight 1-2 Dec, 1984
Q.6 Radha Mohan Singh ? 3. Midnight 3-4 Dec, 1984 4. Midnight 2-3 Dec, 1984
Q.7 Which Article is related with "equality before the law”? 5. None of these
1. Article 10 2. Article 11 Ans: 4
3. Article 18 4. Article 14
5. Article 23
Ans: 4
Q.8 Which Article is related with "right to life and personal liberty” ?
1. Article 10 2. Article 11
3. Article 18 4. Article 30
5. Article 21
Ans: 5

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