Disturbing insights into Modi's COVID tracking app
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| | An analysis of the app by Defensive Lab Agency, a Paris-based cybersecurity consultancy, offers disturbing insights: The app gathers a user’s identity, has the ability to access their phonebook and contacts without asking for user permission, and tracks their movement in realtime, and also continuously checks if other people who have downloaded the app are in the proximity of the user.
This allows Aarogya Setu to create a social graph of a person’s contacts. Combining this data with existing government databases — many of which are already seeded with the mobile numbers of citizens — can significantly expand the government’s powers of surveillance, privacy experts said.
Worse, Aarogya Setu’s user agreement states that the data can be used in the future for purposes other than epidemic control if there is a legal requirement. The app’s privacy policy says the personal information harvested by Aargoya Setu will not be shared with “third parties”, but makes clear that this data may be shared with as many agencies as the government sees fit. |
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