Can “Jeopardise Nationwide Safety”: Derek O’Brien On ‘Tek Fog’ App

Kolkata (West Bengal):

Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien on Thursday wrote to Chairman, Parliamentary Status Committee on House, for dialogue relating to app ‘Tek Fog’ announcing “utilization of manipulative applied sciences is a critical risk to nationwide and voters’ safety”.

“As a member of the Parliamentary Status Committee on House Affairs, beneath your Chairmanship, I write to convey in your quick consideration an issue that has critical ramifications and may jeopardize nationwide safety. On 6 January 2022, media outlet The Twine reported at the lifestyles of a social media manipulator and hijacker device utility via the title of ‘Tek Fog’,” Derek O’Brien mentioned in his letter.

The parliamentary Status Committee on House is headed via Congress MP Anand Sharma.

The TMC MP mentioned that “the lifestyles and utilization of manipulative applied sciences like Tek Fog is a critical risk to nationwide and voters’ safety, a contravention of our elementary rights to privateness and loose speech, an exploitation of public discourse, and a defilement of the rustic’s democracy and safety”.

“It’s crucial that this subject be taken cognizance of, via the individuals of the Parliamentary Status Committee on House Affairs which offers with issues of nationwide safety. I due to this fact request you to absorb this subject for dialogue within the approaching assembly of the Committee,” he mentioned within the letter.

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