{"id":34770,"date":"2020-05-04T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/india-makes-contact-tracing-app-compulsory-in-viral-hot-zones-despite-most-local-phones-not-being-smart\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T07:31:13","slug":"india-makes-contact-tracing-app-compulsory-in-viral-hot-zones-despite-most-local-phones-not-being-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/india-makes-contact-tracing-app-compulsory-in-viral-hot-zones-despite-most-local-phones-not-being-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has made use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app compulsory in some parts of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The country yesterday extended its national lockdown for two weeks from today. But the extension is not total: regions that have experienced no new cases at all or none in the last 21 days will be designated \u201cgreen zones\u201d. But locales with known cases or insufficient data will become \u201cred\u201d or \u201corange\u201d zones subject to ongoing stay-at-home orders and extensive restrictions on business activity.<\/p>\n<p>And in Red or Orange zones, according to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mha.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/MHA%20Order%20Dt.%201.5.2020%20to%20extend%20Lockdown%20period%20for%202%20weeks%20w.e.f.%204.5.2020%20with%20new%20guidelines.pdf\">Order<\/a> [PDF] from the Ministry of Home affairs, \u201cThe local authority shall ensure 100% coverage of the Aarogya Setyu App among residents of the containment zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aarogya Setyu is India\u2019s national contact-tracing app and has been pushed by officials from the Prime Minister down as not just a handy tool but one it is just-about-unpatriotic to ignore. India\u2019s IT minister has even labelled it \u201cfoolproof\u201d, which sounds like a challenge to black hats!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.943661971831\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QuotableQuotes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#QuotableQuotes<\/a> | \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SetuAarogya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SetuAarogya<\/a> App is foolproof and a secure app.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rsprasad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rsprasad<\/a> Hon&#8217;ble IT Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoI_MeitY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GoI_Meity<\/a>. Get your own personal bodyguard at your fingertips, download the app now -iOS:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeWB6XDG54\">https:\/\/t.co\/eeWB6XDG54<\/a><br \/>Android:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X62xHj6EqJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/X62xHj6EqJ<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DigitalIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DigitalIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndiaFightsCorona?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndiaFightsCorona<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IAZge7C6Bm\">pic.twitter.com\/IAZge7C6Bm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Digital India (@_DigitalIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_DigitalIndia\/status\/1256226538757992448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This new order may well be impossible to enforce because the app doesn\u2019t run on feature phones, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/04\/30\/india_to_develop_contact_tracing_for_feature_phones\/\">comprise over half of India\u2019s national phone fleet<\/a>. However it\u2019s not hard to see why India wants more installs: it\u2019s had around 80 million to date, which is not just over six percent of the country\u2019s population and not a particularly useful sample in a nation where mega-cities top the ten-million-resident mark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2017\/05\/05\/beware_awkward_moments_shutterstock.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Beware awkward moments next exit\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"It\u2019s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in\">Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/04\/14\/contact_tracing_exit_strategy\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Aarogya Setyu uses the now-familiar Bluetooth beacon method for logging users\u2019 activities and its. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.swaraksha.gov.in\/ncv19\/privacy\/\">privacy policy<\/a> promises data collected will only be used for anonymous heat maps and informing those who encounter COVID-19 sufferers. But the privacy policy also includes a clause saying \u201cAll personal information collected from you under Clause 1(a) at the time of registration will be retained for as long as your account remains in existence and for such period thereafter as required under any law for the time being in force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a clause <em>The Register<\/em> has found in our investigation of similar apps. And now it\u2019s a clause that will bind unknown numbers of users who will be compelled to download the app. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1925\/-8451\/build-the-next-generation-of-your-business-in-the-public-cloud?td=wptl1925\">Webcast: Build the next generation of your business in the public cloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/05\/04\/india_makes_contacttracing_app_compulsory\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech minister says app is &#8216;foolproof&#8217;! We imagine Black Hats probably don&#8217;t agree. And some may have time on their hands at present India has made use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app compulsory in some parts of the nation.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News | ThreatsHub.org | Cloud Security &amp; Cyber Threats Analysis Hub. 100% Free OSINT 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