Emerging information of the possibility of political parties having links with Cambridge Analytica is disturbing (‘World’ page– “‘Congress was Cambridge Analytica’s client’,” March 28). They seem to have compromised the integrity of the nation by way of utilising the services of such companies in “all kinds of projects in India, including regionally”. Over the past few years, hundreds of non-government organisations have lost their registration and have been forced to close down for some reason or other. Their access to foreign funds has become extremely difficult. Since political parties are not transparent about their source of funds, can civil society now demand an investigation into all political parties involved in the mining of personal data? How can we ever trust our political parties?

Hemachandra Basappa,

Bengaluru

Yet another complicated story, of a data breach, appears to be leading to the doorstep of a major political party. If true, the Congress president has a lot of questions to answer. The “disclosures” also give rise to more questions. How safe is the average Indian’s personal data especially as Facebook has become a part of our daily life? And what steps is the government taking to safeguard our Aadhaar data?

Malay Panchal,

Ahmedabad