New Delhi, Mar 26 (DHNS): The Centre on Sunday dismissed allegations of data leak via Prime Minister Narendra Modi (NaMo) app as fake stories.

Dismissing the allegations, government sources said NaMo app does not ask for a blanket access to the users' personal data.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi often uses the NaMo app to connect to the public and get their feedback on various issues.

On Friday, French security researcher Wlliot Alderson, took to Twitter to claim that the NaMo app sends all the device info and personal data, including email IDs, photos, gender and names of the users without consent to a third-party domain belonging to American Company - Clever Tap - without consent.

The allegations come at a time when UK-based company Cambridge Analytica is facing the heat over harvesting personal data of social media users to influence their voting behavior.

Earlier in the day, Congress president Rahul Gandhi also took to Twitter to claim that the prime minister was giving data shares by app users to his "friends in American companies".

"Narendra Modi App is a unique app, which unlike most Apps, gives access to users in 'guest mode' without even any permission or data. The permissions required are all contextual and cause-specific. For example, a selfie campaign requires access to the camera and/or photo gallery. Contact access is required to connect with friends or fellow party workers on the New India connect module. If a person has entered his email address and date of birth, he receives a personalised birthday greeting from the prime minister. Each function asks for the specific permission when access is required. The app does not ask for blanket permissions when the app is started," sources said.

"The data exposed by the French Twitter user is the data entered by the user on his own device. This is not a security breach. The person does not have access to any data apart from his own data," sources in the government claimed.