Aarogya Setu app is ‘sophisticated surveillance system’: Rahul

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said Aarogya Setu mobile application is outsourced to a private operator, raising serious data security and privacy concerns. Technology can help keep us safe, but fear must not be used to track citizens without their consent, he said.

The mobile application helps users identify whether they are at risk of the COVID-19 infection. It also provides people with important information, including ways to avoid coronavirus and its symptoms.

‘The Arogya Setu app, is a sophisticated surveillance system, outsourced to a pvt operator, with no institutional oversight — raising serious data security & privacy concerns. Technology can help keep us safe; but fear must not be leveraged to track citizens without their consent,’ he said on Twitter.