NaMo App Exposé: Rahul Gandhi Attacks PM Over Data Sharing; BJP Hits Back

In his tweet, Rahul Gandhi also attacked the media for “burying the critical story”

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday over allegations of data sharing from his official app without users’ consent, a charge the BJP trashed.

Gandhi also accused the media of “burying” the story.

His attack on the prime minister was based on a media report in which a French vigilante hacker has purportedly alleged that data was stolen from his official app — NaMo App — without consent of the users.

“Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India’s Prime Minister. When you sign up for my official App, I give all your data to my friends in American companies,” Gandhi said on Twitter.

In the tweet, he also attached a news story titled – “Data theft allegations reaches PM Modi’s doorstep, French vigilante hacker’s stunning revelation“.

The BJP reacted on Twitter saying, it did not expect “any better” from the Congress chief. It also said the data is used only for analytics using third party service, similar to Google Analytics.


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“We also take this opportunity to encourage Rahul Gandhi to download NaMo App to keep himself appraised of the good things happening in India,” the @BJP4India said in a tweet. It put out several tweets on the matter.

In his tweet, Gandhi also attacked the media saying on Twitter, “Ps. Thanks mainstream media, you’re doing a great job of burying this critical story, as always.”


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The Congress and the BJP have indulged in a slinging match over data theft and the use of services of Cambridge Analytica, accused of harvesting data from Facebook.