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Why the privacy community wants Aarogya Setu to be open-sourced

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The Indian government is reportedly planning to open source the code for its contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu. According to reports, NITI Aayog’s programme director, Arnab Kumar, today, said that the government is mulling over open sourcing the code for the app, though a decision is yet to be taken.

In a report by The Dialogue, the public policy think tank recommended that the government should open source the code for this app, for the sake of transparency.

The same has been demanded by various users, security researchers and privacy advocates. The Dialogue’s report also said that the government should allow “independent data auditing" to ensure checks and balances and accountability.

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