Author: Abhishek Shimpi

Threats of stealing data from the Aarogya Setu app.
During the period of Global/Pandemic disease Corona Virus that is COVID-19. for the sake of safety majors, Indian Govt has developed an app that guides you through the symptoms of COVID-19.this app is managed and developed by Govt. of India. you can be logged in to This app with basic details as. Phone no., Name and Adress, Live Location/Location history, and Bluetooth access.

As of now, people who are using this app are staying home. or their native places the users who have this app installed on their phones or tablets and frequently using this app. It is always easier to fetch data of the user to an app by their servers and can be a huge risk that can be leaked in the future period. As it collecting locations and other details of an individual. databases will store that value for a long period. Similarly, local bodies are developing the same app for safety majors of COVID-19. As the hackers and data analysts are knowing that data can be manipulated for future spamming.

Location and age-wise data can be used by local politicians and government for manipulating people considering the database as a weapon.
AI (artificial intelligence) is strong enough to identify the location and interests of a person who is using this app. Cookies and search history stored by users will be used for building manipulation techniques by data analysts and data scientists.for as of now old techniques were used to manipulate data over the time and users, data scientists are getting real-time access of users over the app. that could make the threat to the privacy and confidentiality it could be major threats in the future as a location, age, name, and language-wise data leaks for the country.