The honesty app “Sarahah” isn’t that honest when it comes to customer privacy. Sarahah app, one of the top applications of Apple app store in over 30 countries in July.
The honesty app “Sarahah” isn’t that honest when it comes to customer privacy. Sarahah, top of Apple’s free downloaded app in over 30 countries in July, is an app created to get honest feedback from people around you, anonymously. It also allows you to send anonymous and unmoderated comments to any other user, whether you know them or not. This app has been found to be uploading user’s entire email and phone contact list on the company’s server. Sarahah has no functionality which requires the contact information of the users, and this has raised concern among many cybersecurity analysts. A senior security analyst Zachary Julian was the first one to find out this, using a monitoring software Burp suite. Earlier this year unroll.Me, a service to clean up the inbox, has been under the security analyst radar, for claims of selling user data to Uber. However, the Sarahah founder, Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, tweeted that this was for “Find your friend” feature to be implemented at the later stage of the app. He also assured that the data request would be removed on app’s next update. To prevent any app’s from accessing your contact info : Go to Settings→Personal→Apps→Configuration app→App permission. Configure the parameters appropriately. Apart from this, No age verification in Sarahah was a matter of concern for child safety groups and law enforcement as it has made a platform for cyber bullies to play with. The app has no age restrictions while signing up and the kids who could not cope up with negative criticism and bullying could be a victim of this app.