The Congress and BJP are accusing each other of data breach of users registered on their apps
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a fresh shot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter alleging that the Narendra Modi app is leaking data to US companies. He claimed that the Prime Minister is allowing 'American companies' to take away the data of the users who sign up for the application. The BJP has countered the claims and said the data was being used only for analytics to offer all users the "most contextual content". It also hit out at the Congress, saying the opposition party's app shared data with third parties without consent.
The allegations against the Narendra Modi app come at a time of the unfolding Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach storm.
Here are the live updates of the controversial story:
Those who do not know much about technology make such statements, says BJP on accusations by Congress over data breach.
Analytics is not equivalent to spying, Rahul Gandhi needs to learn this: Sambit Patra
Wish data could be protected with thick walls: Abhishek Manu Singhvi
"Aadhaar is safe and secure because it is 13 feet high and 5 feet thick walls", this is what the BJP government's defence was. I wish it was possible to protect data through thick walls
"Shoot the messenger, ignore the message" this is how this government functions, says Congress.
Smriti Irani also took a shot at Rahul Gandhi by defending her party and drawing comparisons to the cartoon character 'Chhota Bheem'.
The BJP Karnataka also took a shot at PM Modi and attacked Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over his app.
Divya Spandana, Social Media & Digital Communications of the AICC, also said the URL for membership on the INC app has been defunct for a while now and the membership is through the INC website. She also said the With INC app does not collect or share any data and called Amit Malviya a "dimwit".
The Congress has said there was no truth to the data breach allegation and asked everyone to join INC.
The Congress has countered the claims of sharing of data and has tweeted against it.
The war was joined by Cabinet Minister of Textiles and Information & Broadcasting Smriti Irani, who took multiple shots at the Congress President.
The Congress has deleted its own app after various BJP ministers joined in the Twitter war. Amit Malviya also tweeted about this.
Rahul Gandhi further tweeted that the data belongs to India and not PM Modi.
A security researcher, who has previously highlighted vulnerabilities in India's national identity card project Aadhaar and who tweets under the pseudonym Elliot Alderson, first posted a series of messages on Twitter on Saturday stating the
Narendra Modi app was sending personal user data to a third-party domain that was traced to an American company.
Alderson, who initially pointed out that the application, popularly known as NaMo app in India, was sharing data with a third party without the consent of users, earlier on Sunday posted a new tweet saying the app had "quietly" updated its privacy policy after his previous tweets.
Following Rahul Gandhi's footsteps, BJP's national Information & Technology in-charge Amit Malviya sarcastically tweeted and took a shot at the Congress that the party also shares its data with foreign vendors.
In a series of tweets, Rahul Gandhi attacked the prime minister's app and also tagged a news report.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked PM Modi and the BJP with tweets, some posted with the hashtag #DeleteNaMoApp.