Aarogya Setu can be a useful tool in the fight against covid-19, but it is no revolutionary solution Apprehensions about India’s covid-19 contact tracer Aarogya Setu have centred around privacy but it could be a case of generals fighting the previous war.

That war was conducted by civil rights activists against the mission creep of Aadhaar and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court verdict curtailing use of the biometric identifier.

In the context of covid-19, however, we might be better served focusing on efficacy rather than privacy. Let me clarify that privacy is important even during a pandemic.

If it becomes necessary for a government to intrude into the lives of citizens, it ought to compensate by being scrupulously transparent about

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