How to delete your personal data from Aarogya Setu app

Aarogya Setu app now permits you to delete your private information. (Express Photo)
Aarogya Setu, the Indian authorities’s contact tracing app now lets customers delete their accounts from the app completely. With the introduction of this new function, the federal government will supposedly delete all of a person’s information when requested, this would come with their private particulars and their location information.

The growth group has introduced the addition of the flexibility to make use of Bluetooth contacts to evaluate the chance stage related to COVID-19. Both of those new options at the moment are out there with the newest replace of the Aarogya Setu app on each Android and iOS. To get entry to those new options, customers are required to replace the app from their respective app shops.

Today we’re going to have a look at how one can delete your private information from the Aarogya Setu app:

* Update the Aarogya Setu app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

* Open the Aarogya Setu app and click on on the hamburger icon on the highest left nook of the app.

* Tap on the ‘Settings’ icon.
The new function will show you how to delete your information saved within the app.
* Now you might want to choose the ‘Delete my Account’ possibility. And then enter your registered cellular quantity.

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* Now on the subsequent web page, faucet ‘I Agree’.

* Then the app will ask you to make your cellphone seen to different units for 120 seconds.

* After you agree, the app will once more ask you to enter your cellphone quantity to ship an OTP to it and confirm your id.

* The app will then delete your information.

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Note: The new function will show you how to delete your information saved within the app, nonetheless, it is not going to accomplish that to your information within the app’s servers. Data that’s saved within the servers will stay there for 30 days and can robotically be deleted after that.

We tried deleting our information from the app. However, even after the method was profitable the cellphone remained logged in with the registered quantity and saved exhibiting the entire information. This is likely to be a bug within the app.

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