It was Rahul Gandhi’s tweet posted on Sunday that Amit Malviya responded to which read, “Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India’s Prime Minister. When you sign up for my official App, I give all your data to my friends in American companies.”
After Rahul Gandhi once again took the internet by storm by posting a sarcastic tweet about Narendra Modi’s app reportedly sharing users’ data with the Prime Minister’s “friends in American companies”, Amit Malviya of BJP tweeted in a similar taste today regarding users’ data from the website of Congress being shared with the party’s “friends in Singapore”.
It was Rahul Gandhi’s tweet posted on Sunday that Amit Malviya responded to which read, “Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India’s Prime Minister. When you sign up for my official App, I give all your data to my friends in American companies.”
Rahul pointed at a recent allegation made by an agent of French cybersecurity researcher that the Narendra Modi app shares the data of its registered users with a behavioural analytics company in the US.
Hi! My name is Narendra Modi. I am India'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're doing a great job of burying this critical story, as always.https://t.co/IZYzkuH1ZH
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 25, 2018
In almost similar language, Amit Malviya, with a screenshot of baffling numbers along with IP addresses, responded:
Hi! My name is Rahul Gandhi. I am the President of India’s oldest political party. When you sign up for our official App, I give all your data to my friends in Singapore. pic.twitter.com/ceCTkod17D
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 26, 2018
And in a storm of tweets that later followed, he quoted bits from the privacy policy of the Congress website. The chunk cast a light on the privacy policy of the website that reads: “For making the use of Website effective and resourceful Indian National Congress may share your information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers or volunteers who are engaged by or working with us and who need access to such information to carry out their work for us; with candidates, organizations, groups or causes that we believe have similar political viewpoints, principles or objectives”.
And the rest of the privacy policy of the party states such: “…when you give us your consent to do so, including if we notify you on the Website, that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information; when we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority…”
Malviya further remarked that the “implications are grave” of the part of the privacy policy of Congress about sharing the data of the users with organizations, candidates causes or groups that have similar political principles, standpoints or objectives.
Full marks to @INCIndia for stating upfront that they'll give your data to **practically anyone** – undisclosed vendors, unknown volunteers, even 'groups with similar causes'. In theft of all forms, Congress has never been discreet! pic.twitter.com/FCSIv6nPMn
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 26, 2018
He also said that those opinions that fall in line with that of Congress could imply, “Maoists, stone pelters, Bharat Ke Tukde Gang, Chinese embassy to globally ‘renowned’ organisations like Cambridge Analytica, the field is extensive and wide open.”
When Congress says they will share your data with like-minded groups, the implications are grave. From Maoists, stone pelters, Bharat Ke Tukde Gang, Chinese embassy to globally ‘renowned’ orgs like Cambridge Analytica, the field is extensive and wide open. pic.twitter.com/E6S8MJwgiy
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 26, 2018
Moreover, Malviya also alleged that the Congress has connections with the infamous data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica which mined data of 50 million US users illegally without their consent.
All of you who complained about the surge in anti-BJP and anti-government messages and fake news in recent days on social media, now know who was behind it – an insidious Cambridge Analytica hired by a desperate Congress!
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 21, 2018
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