Following a complaint from the Unique Identification Authority of India, the Cyberabad police filed a first information report against IT Grids for allegedly being in possession of Aadhaar information belonging to 78,221,397 individuals from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, The Times of India reports. The company was reportedly using the data to develop TDP’s Seva Mitra, and it's believed that the data was obtained illegally. "The investigation so far revealed that Seva Mitra app is suspected to be using stolen voter information along with Aadhaar data of the state governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for voter profiling, targeted campaigning and even deletion of votes. Search was conducted on the premises of IT Grids and seven hard disks and other digital evidence were seized," UIDAI Deputy Director T Bhavani Prasad said in the complaint.
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