These Tweets Reveal How “India’s Two Leading Parties” Data Can be Easily Hack
CleverTap, a five-year-old US-based startup founded by three Indians is facing the heat after a pseudonymous researcher alleged that Indian PM Modi's Namo app was disclosing private information like name, email, mobile number, device information, and location, to servers controlled by the firm without the user's consent.
The hacker & researcher known as Elliot Alderson on twitter, in a series of tweets, pointed the privacy lapses in the NaMO App and alleged that mobile marketing platform CleverTap was the beneficiary of the data transfer.
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1/ In this request, the @narendramodi's #Android #application sends silently and without the user's consent, his IP address and a unique identifier of his phone.
This personal data is sent to the website https://t.co/XTWhe9kc5T whic...