India Today investigation reveals political agencies stealing voters' data

India Today's undercover investigation unearthed a number of home-grown political consultancies playing fast and loose with citizen data they scrape from various sources, let alone Facebook or Twitter.

The probe found them secretly culling voter profiles on behalf of political parties for targeted messaging during election campaigns.

Manish, founder of New Delhi-based Janadhar, an election management company, offered a trove of data scooped from retail chains, job portals, shopping apps, banks and telecom and DTH firms for unleashing a psychological warfare on voters.