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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.

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TVK leader C Joseph Vijay on Sunday took oath as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu amid a sea of supporters, his friends and family, and several political leaders. Eight other TVK leaders were sworn in besides him, as ministers in the new government. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also attended the ceremony. The TVK managed to secure the Governor's nod to form the government after the Congress, the CPI, the CPI(M), the VCK, and IUML extended their support to the Vijay-led party for a colaition government.