Digi Yatra Knowledge Saved on Passenger Units and Not in Centralised Storage, Minister Says

Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday clarified that underneath Digi Yatra, passengers’ knowledge are saved in their very own gadgets and never in centralized storage.

Within the Digi Yatra course of, there isn’t any central storage of passengers’ Personally Identifiable Data (PII) knowledge, it mentioned.

All of the passengers’ knowledge is encrypted and saved within the pockets of their smartphone. It’s shared solely between the passenger and the airport of journey origin, the place the passenger’s Digi Yatra ID must be validated. The info is purged from the airport’s system inside 24 hours of departure of the flight. The info is shared by passengers immediately, solely once they journey and solely to the origin Airport, says MoCA.

Responding to a tweet on Digi Yatra, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia tweeted, “Passengers’ private data knowledge is just not saved in any central repository or by the Digi Yatra Basis. The info is saved within the passenger’s personal telephone within the Digi Yatra safe pockets. Relaxation assured, no knowledge is being collected or saved.”

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) additional knowledgeable that the information can’t be utilized by some other entity because it’s encrypted. This course of is voluntary and gives the comfort of easy, hassle-free, and health-risk-free journey.

Digi Yatra is an initiative of the Ministry of Civil Aviation for a biometric boarding system utilizing Facial Recognition Expertise. It aimed toward offering a seamless and hassle-free expertise for passengers at airports. Its primary goal is to reinforce the passenger expertise by eliminating the necessity for verification of tickets and ID at a number of contact factors and to realize higher throughput by way of present infrastructure utilizing a Digital Framework.