Clubhouse, the viral audio-only social media app, is now launching on Android after a year of iPhone exclusivity. Clubhouse is a popular app, even more so because its invite-only ethos adds exclusive appeal—and of course there’s the fact that you could get close to celebrities such as Elon Musk and Oprah, who have both appeared in Clubhouse “rooms.”Clubhouse started rolling out to Android users in the U. S. and is expanding to reach the operating system’s nearly 2 billion users over the coming months. But ever since its launch and increasingly after its rapid growth earlier this year, there have been concerns about Clubhouse’s security and privacy. So, is Clubhouse safe so use and should you download the Android app? In April, it emerged that user data including IDs, names, usernames, and Twitter and Instagram handles had been leaked online and posted to an online hacker forum—but Clubhouse said this was not due to a breach, outlining that the information scraped was all publicly available within the app. The Verge reported how Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison described the data referred to as “all public profile information from our app.”But this does not change that fact that this information was so easily available that it could be scraped in the first place. Clubhouse’s privacy policy outlines the data it collects including personal information such as your name, phone numbers, email addresses, photographs, “and, in certain circumstances, your school and/or district, class, group, club, team.”“The amount of data Clubhouse collects is more than users may think,” Jake Moore, cybersecurity specialist at ESET, says.“Remaining invite-only comes with the exclusive touch but this is something that might make it open to abuse,” warns Moore. “Possible payments or the trade of personal data in return for such invites are potentially exploitable. Furthermore, anyone using Clubhouse should remain cautious about what information they offer as well as remaining vigilant about what they say within the app.”Other security issues are not the fault of Clubhouse itself. If you are an Android user, you will need to look out for signs that the Clubhouse app is genuine. It has already been widely mimicked—in March, ESET researchers found an Android Trojan posing as Clubhouse. Clubhouse says user privacy and security is a “top priority.”A Clubhouse spokesperson says: “Our team is continually working to improve the experience and we have launched several privacy centric features over the past few months, including the ability to let users invite friends without giving access to their contact list.“We minimize the data we need to collect and store about our users and don’t track people between apps or collect other activity from their web usage. We also work closely with the broader security and privacy community, including running penetration testing exercises with NCC and a bug bounty program in collaboration with HackerOne.


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