India’s Covid-19 App Is a Privacy Nightmare

Is Aarogya Setu a sophisticated surveillance system under the guise of contact tracing?

Sarvesh Mathi
OneZero
Published in
9 min readMay 7, 2020

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The Indian Government launched Aarogya Setu to spread awareness about the Covid-19 outbreak in India. Photo: SOPA Images/Getty Images

To contain the spread of Covid-19, the Indian government imposed a strict nationwide lockdown on March 25 that affects the 1.3 billion people currently living in India. While the lockdown was set to end on April 14, this date has now been pushed…

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