NaMo app found leaking user data to US firm

in namo •  7 years ago 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official app, which has been downloaded over five million times on Android devices, have been found sending user data to a US-based company without taking the user’s consent. The French security researcher, who goes by the alias Elliot Alderson, highlighted the vulnerability on Twitter.

the NaMo app was sending personal user data to a third-party domain that was traced to an American company. He later tweeted that the app had “quietly” updated its privacy policy after his tweets

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