India’s very own COVID-19 tracking mobile application Aarogya Setu has now been made mandatory for employees. The app developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is a tracking app that, with the help of users’ smartphone GPS and Bluetooth, tracks the COVID-19 infection.

However, ever since the app has been launched in India, concerns regarding the data privacy of users have been raised time and again. “The Arogya Setu app, is a sophisticated surveillance system, outsourced to a pvt operator, with no institutional oversight – raising serious data security and privacy concerns. Technology can help keep us safe; but fear must not be leveraged to track citizens without their consent,” said Rahul Gandhi most recently.

Meanwhile, the government has dispersed all concerns regarding the app, and said that all processing of contact tracing and risk assessment is done anonymously and no personal information is exchanged post the registration. Through a series of tweets, the government also explained what they do with user data.

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