According to sources shortly after the Cambridge Analytica controversy, the Congress and BJP traded accusations of data harvesting and this was because of Karnataka CM's pictures being there on the app violated the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct, he did not address the data harvesting allegations the Karnataka BJP had made against the Congress.
Meanwhile the Model Code of Conduct which has been in place since Tuesday when the dates for the Karnataka Assembly election were announced, dictate that no government platform can have photographs of candidates or messages promoting the government's achievements. Further the BBMP has also been actively removing government posters, and hoardings featuring government ads. Similarly, photos of the CM and other ministers have been removed from government websites.
Furthermore Prime Minister Narendra Modi NaMo app,
which is owned by a private company, has also come under scrutiny for allegedly
sharing data with third parties without the users’ consent. Moreover this is
not the first time data misuse allegations have been made against the
Siddaramaiah app. Bengaluru-based techie Shreeharsha Perla had alleged earlier
it was sharing user data with third parties.
