Modi app leaks data? More privacy scare after Cambridge Analytica, Aadhaar

French researcher Elliot Alderson has alleged that information of those who download the Narendra Modi app is being provided to a third-party US company, Clever Tap, without users' consent

After the data leak scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the many reports of Aadhaar data of Indian being at a risk of compromise, the Narendra Modi app seems to be in the eye of a storm, and a new flashpoint in the war between the Congress and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). 

Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's app was leaking data to US companies. In a post on Twitter, Gandhi claimed that the Prime Minister was allowing ‘American companies’ to take away the data of users who signed up for his application.

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