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Why privacy advocates have concerns over Aarogya Setu app

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The Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA) directive to make the Aarogya Setu app mandatory for individuals in all workplaces has not gone down well with privacy advocates who feel the app has several security-related blackholes and can eventually become surveillance tool for the government.

Aarogya Setu seeks continuous access to location information for its social movement graph and uses Bluetooth technology to alert people when they come in contact with a covid-19 positive person.

Most contact-tracing apps work on the same principle. However, what clouds the narrative around Aarogya Setu is the ambiguous privacy policy and silence on security practices. “The privacy policy of the app is completely silent on as to what security practices are

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