Privacy advocates explain.
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| | On Monday, the Indian government released a new set of protocols for the use and processing of data collected by its Aarogya Setu app. “A good privacy policy has been made to ensure that personal data of people are not misused,” Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said.
The guidelines have been released amid widespread privacy concerns raised by legal experts and rights bodies as the app is slowly being made mandatory in the daily life of millions of Indians.
Over 96 million people have registered with the app so far. In just over a month, an app once touted as voluntary has become almost ubiquitous.
Former Supreme Court Judge BN Srikrishna, who chaired the committee which came out with the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, told the Indian Express that making the app mandatory was “utterly illegal”.
So what exactly are privacy advocates worried about with Aarogya Setu? |
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