Several Union ministers, politicians, and film actors are switching to the micro-blogging platform Koo but this leak has raised serious concerns regarding the safety of private information of the users. “You asked so I did it. I spent 30 min on this new Koo app. The app is leaking the personal data of users: email, dob, name, marital status, gender…” Alderson tweeted with emended screenshots of the data he was able to access.
Aprameya Radhakrishna, Koo’s co-founder, and CEO responded that the app is fully secured and data visible is something that the users have voluntarily shown on the profile. Aprameya explained on Twitter that “some news about data leaking being spoken about unnecessarily. Please read this: The data visible is something that the user has voluntarily shown on their profile of Koo. It cannot be termed a data leak. If you visit a user profile you can see it anyway”.
Alderson countered the tweet by sharing a screenshot of an IAS officer on Koo, he claimed he could gain access to the data of an IAS officer without it being visible on the profile page and he tagged Aprameya in his tweet.
Aprameya replied to the tweet – “@fs0c131y (Elliot Alderson) We’re attempting to do something for our country, India. All help is apprec ..
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