After repeated privacy concerns being raised about the government’s Aarogya Setu app, the Indian government today said less than 13000 users’ data has been moved to government servers from the app so far.
The same was confirmed by Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), during the health ministry’s daily briefing about covid-19 today.
Sawhney is also heading the technology and data management efforts for the Empowered Group of Officers set up under the Disaster Management Act.
According to Sawhney, these were users who were found to be covid-19 positive or at risk of the disease through the app. Their data will also be deleted from the servers 60 days after they’re cured.