Number’s up for Boris
Conference app reveals ministers’ details
Contact details for Tory MPS and ministers were revealed yesterday after a glitch in the party’s conference phone app. Boris Johnson and Michael Gove were among the politicians whose phone numbers were made available on the CPC 2018 app in Birmingham.
Anyone attending the conference needed only the email address of a politician to log in as them and access information including their mobile phone numbers. Images posted to Twitter showed people logging in as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove among others and apparently leaving messages on the internal messaging system.
The app, created by an Australian firm called Crown Comms, was updated and the login function removed after concerns were raised with the party.