Most of us Indians had not even heard of the controversial data theft. Even those who had were aware only of its role in manipulating the United States presidential election in 2016. IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad grabbed the issue floating around in the US and Europe and let it loose in India. First, he accused the Congress of hiring the company Cambridge Analytica accused of mining personal data in the US for manipulating polls in India. Then, he went on to warn Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg against influencing elections in India. Although at last his party was also found involved in this data theft.