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Coders are in demand across sectors in India. Here’s why The rising need for programmers and developers in non-IT sectors in the wake of the sharp digital-first focus across India Inc is driving the demand for those who belong to this ilk, while helping institutes that offer programming courses rake in the moolah (Image credit: ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash) Aakash Iyer, 24, a denizen of Chennai, graduated in programming from a city engineering college in 2018 and then joined a food startup as an entry-level software developer. In just two years, Iyer’s salary surged 58 percent to R...

But because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc and now we discover yet another incident where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica that had fraudulently obtained all of this information, why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015 that cambridge analytica had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with, we did take action. we took down the app. and we demanded that both the app developer and ca...

Identify apps that are similarly doing sketchy things, we're going to make sure that we tell people then too, right? that's definitely something that looking back on this, you know, i regret that we didn't do at the time. and i think we got that wrong. and we're committed to getting that right going forward. >> i want to ask about that because when this came to light, you guys knew this a long time ago, that this data was out there. why didn't you tell users? don't you think users have the right to know that their data is being used for different purposes? >> so yes. and let me tell you what a...

Many wonders where is mark zuckerberg or the guys that run the company. they weren't out there. he's broken his silence. he was in meeting with engineers to make sure this doesn't happen again. one of the things that i think is important here, you know, he says it in a statement, this shouldn't have happened. it happened about four or five years ago when they gave permission for this app developer to take this quiz and in doing so, he got basically access to 50 million users, personal information, which was then sold to cambridge analytics. facebook says that violated their terms of use and th...

Broadcast, you have all of this data being passed to a firm that seems to use really underhanded tactics to get what it wants or talks about using those tactics. >> was it stolen? >> is that the difference? did the information that the people freely gave up for use of the obama campaign, in this case, the information was stolen and metastasized, they not only took your information but all your facebook colleagues, everybody you knew, they grabbed all that, too. was that a theft? that's a tough question. >> i want to be clear, at the time this was completely in agreement with facebook's terms. ...