Mythili Sampathkumar - Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused of spying on citizens using official smartphone app
Indian Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi has been accused of spying on his citizens through his office’s
official smartphone app. A security
researcher, tweeting under the pseudonym Eliott Alderson, has
said Indians’ personal data was sent to a third party’s server in the US
without prior permission and the claim has drawn the ire of the main opposition
Congress Party.
Mr Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata
Party has denied the allegations and said in a tweet that the data was
merely being used to provide users with ”the most contextual content”.
Mr
Alderson, whose name is an homage to the television drama Mr Robot, posted
a series of tweets over the weekend with screenshots of code that supposedly
detail the data privacy breach of the app, which has been downloaded by at
least 5m Android users... read more:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-prime-minister-narendra-modi-spying-app-data-mining-bjp-a8275141.html