New Delhi: As the scandal of Facebook’s data breach continues to unravel, the Election Commission (EC) has signaled the possibility of reviewing its relationship with the social networking platform. A report in The Indian Express today quoted chief election commissioner O.P. Rawat as saying that the commission’s partnership with Facebook to boost enrollment of young voters is going to be discussed at the next meeting.“We will be considering this issue in its entire dimension in the commission meeting,” Rawat told the newspaper. He expressed the commission’s concern over the use of such poll-related methods to influence and mould public opinion.The newspaper report informed that in a bid to enthuse young Facebook users to register themselves as voters, the EC collaborated with Facebook at least on three separate occasions last year. The commission and the social networking site had sent Facebook users reminders in 13 Indian languages to register themselves as voters. After A.K. Joti took over as the commission chief, all Facebook users who turned 18, received birthday greetings with a reminder to register with the Election Commission. In January this year, the commission sponsored a National Voters’ Day pledge on Facebook.The row began when Cambridge Analytica, a British firm, was accused of harvesting private data of more than five crore Facebook users to influence the US electorate in the last presidential election.The manipulation came to light when Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower and former employee of Cambridge Analystica, blew the lid on the firm collecting personal data of Facebook users. The research firm then used the data to profile voters and deliver to the pro-Trump campaign material.As global outrage over data breach deepens, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has warned Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of repercussions under the Information Technology Act, in case data theft of India users is confirmed. “Mr Mark Zuckerberg, you better note the observation of the IT minister of India,” Prasad said, speaking of himself in the third person.“We welcome the FB profile [sic] in India, but if any data theft of Indians is done through the collusion of FB system, it shall not be tolerated. We have got stringent power in the IT Act, we shall use it, including summoning you in India,” Prasad warned.Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has assured of Facebook’s commitment to uphold the integrity of the forthcoming elections in India and Brazil.“We have a responsibility to do this, not only for the 2018 midterms in the US, which are going to be a huge deal this year…” he said. “There’s a big election in India this year, there’s a big election in Brazil, there are big elections around the world, and you can bet that we are really committed to doing everything that we need to to make sure that the integrity of those elections on Facebook is secured.”