New Delhi: The team at Aarogya Setu app stressed that no personal information of any user has been proven to be at risk and no data or security breach has been identified in the COVID-19 contact tracing app.
Reacting to an ethical hacker's claim that a security issue has been found in the app, the team said the app is completely safe, as also tweeted by Aarogya Setu.
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— Aarogya Setu (@SetuAarogya) May 5, 2020Statement from Team #AarogyaSetu on data security of the App. pic.twitter.com/JS9ow82Hom
— Aarogya Setu (@SetuAarogya) May 5, 2020
- The Aarogya Setu team said the app fetches a user's location by design and store the location data on the server in a secure, encrypted and anonymised manner, "when users submit their contact tracing data voluntary through the app of when we fetch tracing data of a user after they have turned COVID-19 positive."
- It said that the radius parameters to spot COVID-19 positive patients are fixed and can take one of the five values: 500 metres, 1 km, 2 km, 5 kn and 10 km.
- "The app user can change the latitude/longitude to get the data for multiple locations. Getting data for multiple latitude/longitude this way is no different than asking several people of their location's COVID-19 statistics".
