The Indian government has said that its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu “by design” fetches the location data of its 90 million users and allows them to view the concentration of people who have ...

Even as Indian government’s contact trace app Aarogya Setu recorded more than 90 Mn (9 Cr) downloads, ICT apex body Manufacturers’ Association Of Information Technology (MAIT) has raised the red flag ...

New Delhi — India's government is trying to address privacy concerns raised by hackers, activists and political opposition parties over its coronavirus contact tracing app. The app, called Aarogya ...

As most countries across the globe scramble to build an app to trace the spread of coronavirus, India’s solution is growing at an unprecedented scale — despite being dogged by privacy concerns. New ...

Aarogya Setu, the official national contact tracing app in India, is the latest app to connect with the Ayushman Bharat Health Account, the health ID component of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

The ‘Aarogya Setu Emergency Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol, 2020’, which will be applicable for the next six months, also increases the period of retention of such data from the earlier 60 ...

SFLC.IN warns that the app collects personal information, some of which is sensitive personal data such as a person’s gender and travel history. The app claims to protect users but makes no guarantee ...

As society grapples to stay on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a heightened responsibility on governments to effectively deal with this public health crisis, in a manner that is ...