Rahul calls PM 'Big Boss' who spies, BJP rubbishes charge
What's the story
Congress and BJP on Monday again locked horns on the prickly issue of data sharing with Rahul Gandhi dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians" and the ruling party accusing the opposition party of "theft".
The Congress President attacked Modi soon after allegations surfaced that data from the NaMo app was being shared without consent.
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#DeleteNaMoApp
Rahul also appealed people to the delete the NaMo App
Taking to Twitter, the Congress President said: "Modi's NaMo App secretly records audio, video, contacts of your friends and family and even tracks your location via GPS. He's the Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians."
"Now he wants data on our children. 13 lakh NCC cadets are being forced to download the APP," Gandhi said on Twitter using the hashtag "DeleteNaMoApp".
Allegations
BJP rubbishes the charge, alleged the Congress of lying
The BJP, however, rubbished the charge and alleged that the Congress chief was speaking a "lie".
Hitting out at Gandhi, BJP's IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya alleged that the Congress, inspired by its leader Sonia Gandhi's "all power no accountability", will take all your data, even share it worldwide with organizations like Cambridge Analytica but will not take responsibility of it.
Twitter Post
BJP's IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya blamed the Congress party
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 (@malviyamit) March 26, 2018
BJP's claims
BJP claims NaMo App is unique
The BJP on Sunday said that contrary to Rahul Gandhi's lies, data was being used for only analytics using third-party services, similar to Google Analytics.
"Analytics on the user data is done for offering users the most contextual content," it said.
The party claimed the Narendra Modi app is unique and gives access to users in guest mode' without even any permission or data.