Cobrapost Sting Accuses Paytm for Sharing Data with PMO
Cobrapost news portal conducted a sting operation and it claimed the digital wallet firm, Paytm has breached the user’s privacy by sharing user data related to the details of the protestors in the Kashmir Valley with the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on receiving orders from them.
In the 13 minutes long video, the cobrapost has exposed the senior Paytm members (Sudhanshu Gupta, Vice President; Ajay Shekhar Sharma, Sr. Vice President of Paytm) accepting that they have shared data with PMO after they got a call. This sting operation was a part of Cobrapost’s investigation ‘Operation-136 II’, in which Ajay Shekhar Sharma (brother of Paytm founder Operation-136 II) said that someone from the PMO asked for data of users to identify stone-pelters.
Cobrapost's reporter Pushp Sharma used the...