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Cobrapost Sting Accuses Paytm for Sharing Data with PMO
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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...
No Cost Incurred on PM’s Social Media Presence: PMO
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No Cost Incurred on PM’s Social Media Presence: PMO

There is no cost to the exchequer on maintaining the social media presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his office has said. The Prime Minister's official mobile App 'PMO India' was designed by students in a contest conducted by MyGov and hence there was no cost except the prize money in developing the application, it has said in response to an RTI filed by AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. "The App is maintained by PMO," it said. "Website of the Prime Minister's Office is www.pmindia.gov.in and is developed and maintained by PMO," it said. The office said the other social media presence of the Prime Minister's Office is managed by PMO and "as such there is no separate cost on the maintenance of the same". "No campaign was run by the PMO on any social ...