Frequent flier Haseeb Jafferi is a worried man. “All my Aadhaar details and flight history is on it even my food preferences as the boarding pass is scanned. Now I wonder how many spam advertisements I will see. Scared to think if my data can be misused,” says Mr. Jafferi about the DigiYatra app after he found the colour of the App change. “It was odd to see the colour of the app change but just now I got this message from a colleague saying it has been compromised,” says Mr. Jafferi who works for the IDFC Bank and who deleted and uninstalled the app.
Touted as a game changer for check-in at Indian airports, this is not the first time the DigiYatra app has run into trouble. Privacy advocates have questioned its data storage policies and the leeway it has been given by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The information about the compromised app was available with DigiYatra much earlier. On March 27, the app owners tweeted: “Switch to the new Digi Yatra App with three simple steps:
