Congress removes official mobile phone app
New Delhi, Mar 26 (IBNS) : Amid thickening charges and counter charges over sharing user data, the Congress on Monday appeared to have removed its official mobile phone application from Google Play Store.
The move followed a series of tweets by Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s information technology cell,posting screenshots of the privacy policy of the Congress’ website and accusing party President Rahul Gandhi of sharing user data from the official Congress application with “friends in Singapore”.
Malviya’s comments came after Gandhi criticised the Government after a French cyber security expert alleged that the Narendra Modi Android application shared its users’ private information with companies without their consent.
Gandhi on Sunday had posted: "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. Ps. Thanks mainstream media, you're doing a great job of burying this critical story, as always."
The political blamegame started over the reports that British firm Cambridge Analytica used the private data of more than five crore Facebook users to influence voters during Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, and in several other polls around the world. Ever since, the Congress and BJP have been accusing each other of using the services of the British firm
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