{"id":285937,"date":"2018-03-26T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285937"},"modified":"2018-03-26T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:59:51","slug":"data-leak-rahuls-fresh-attack-on-pm-modi-over-namo-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/data-leak-rahuls-fresh-attack-on-pm-modi-over-namo-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Data leak: Rahul&#039;s fresh attack on PM Modi over NaMo app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-285941 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Rahul Gandhi\" width=\"273\" height=\"222\" data-id=\"285941\" \/><\/a>In a series of tweets published on his official Twitter handle, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on March 26 alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was supplying data of Indians (who had signed up for his NAMO app) to American companies.<br \/>\n&#8220;Modi\u2019s NaMo App secretly records audio, video, contacts of your friends &amp; family and even tracks your location via GPS. He\u2019s the Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians. Now he wants data on our children. 13 lakh NCC cadets are being forced to download the APP, said Rahul Gandhi in his latest tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Modi\u2019s NaMo App secretly records audio, video, contacts of your friends &amp; family and even tracks your location via GPS.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians.<br \/>\nNow he wants data on our children. 13 lakh NCC cadets are being forced to download the APP.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeleteNaMoApp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeleteNaMoApp<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/978139678154084352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, at a press conference, alleged that the Congress had engaged controversial data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica,\u00a0Rahul has been constantly tweeting against the BJP.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAMO.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-285940 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NAMO-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"NAMO\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" data-id=\"285940\" \/><\/a>Earlier on March 25, while tagging a web report which talked about NaMo app and stated that a French cyber expert has claimed that personal data of subscribers to \u201cNamo app\u201d was automatically sent to a third-party domain without consent, Rahul tweeted, &#8220;Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India&#8217;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&#8217;re doing a great job of burying this critical story, as always.&#8221;Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India&#8217;s Prime Minister. When you sign up for my official App, I give all your data to my friends in American companies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ps. Thanks mainstream media, you&#8217;re doing a great job of burying this critical story, as always.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IZYzkuH1ZH\">https:\/\/t.co\/IZYzkuH1ZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/977778259810226177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>BJP has also countered Rahul Gandhi\u2019s twitter jibe and said that the Congress President has \u201czero knowledge\u201d of technology. The ruling party also accused the Congress of taking help of data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica for electoral contests.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rahul Gandhi truly shows why he and his party have zero knowledge of technology. All they can do is scare the masses about technology while they continue to steal data using his \u2018Brahmastra\u2019 of Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BJP (@BJP4India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4India\/status\/977810804249477120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of tweets published on his official Twitter handle, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on March 26 alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was supplying data of Indians (who had signed up for his NAMO app) to American companies. &#8220;Modi\u2019s NaMo App secretly records audio, video, contacts of your friends &amp; family and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[453,1053,1054,1055,1056,579,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}