ehackingnews.com - As if the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook scandal and the recent data breach involving Aadhaar weren't enough, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the Prime Minister of leaking Narendra
Modi app data and giving it to American companies.
Not exact matches
India's ruling party is scrambling to defend its use of followers»
data after a pseudonymous security researcher accused PM Narendra
Modi of snooping on citizens with his personal
app, which has been installed by around five million users.
Earlier today, Congress president Rahul Gandhi also took to Twitter to claim that PM
Modi was giving the
data shared by
app users to his «friends in American companies».
The
data from the Narendra
Modi app is reportedly stored in government - owned servers in Mumbai.
As the Narendra
Modi app faces fire over the furtive nature of its
data usage, a five - year - old US - based startup is facing the heat, too.
On March 23, a French security researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, said that the mobile
app of prime minister Narendra
Modi sent users»
data to a third - party US - based company without their consent.
The BJP's online showcase for Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, the NaMo
App, which is under the spotlight in the wake of the debate over
data privacy in social media, asks users to provide access to as many as 22 personal features on their devices, including location, photographs and contacts, microphone and camera.
In a counter attack, BJP's official handle stated, «Narendra
Modi App is a unique
App, which is unlike most
Apps, gives access to users in «guest mode» without even any permission or
data.
Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's official smartphone
app is shipping Indians» personal
data to servers abroad have degenerated into a sarcastic back - and - forth online.
Allegations that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's official mobile
app was sending personal user
data to a third party without consent caused an online uproar over the weekend.
The security researcher, who has previously highlighted some vulnerabilities in India's national identity card project and who tweets under the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, caused a flurry on Saturday with a series of tweets saying the
Modi app was sending personal user
data to a third - party domain that was traced to an American company.
While the opposition party Congress has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's official mobile
app was sending personal user
data to a third party in the US, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has accused the Congress of transmitting personal
data of users who signed up on the party's official
app to a server in Singapore.
AHMEDABAD, India (AP)- Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's official smartphone
app is shipping Indians» personal
data to servers abroad have morphed into a political scandal in a country where privacy rules are weak and the
data mining runs rampant.