New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official App was sharing data without users’ consent, a charge trashed by the BJP as a “fake story”.
MoS K.J. Alphons said, “What is given in Aadhaar are just name and address. Your biometric data is with UIDAI and let me assure you that it has not been breached, it’s absolutely secure. We have given authorisation to government agencies to access Aadhaar information.”
Attacking the aadhaar critics, the minister tweeted, “I filled up to 10 pages for US Visa form. We have absolutely no problem giving our fingerprints & getting body naked before the white man at all. When your own govt asks for your name & address there is a massive revolution saying it’ intrusion in privacy.”
On Saturday, security researcher Elliot Alderson took to Twitter to claim that the NaMo App shares private information of users to a third-party US firm CleverTap without their consent. BJP said that it did not expect “any better” from the Congress chief and insisted that the data is used only for analytics.
