Aarogya Setu’s problems go beyond its privacy flaws!
Launched over a month ago, the Aarogya Setu app, India’s contact tracing app developed as a means to alert users of contact with a COVID-19 patient who has tested positive, has been a mixed bag of results. While the government has claimed moral victory for being the most downloaded app , privacy critics have been slamming the app for hiding more than it is revealing to the public. The World Health Organization states that contact tracing has three components, identification (of the person who is infected), listing (listing all people he may have come in contact with) and follow-up (where all listed people need to be monitored for symptoms and signs of infection). Almost all of the work that goes into contact tracing is manual work and generates a lot of data. This data needs to be stored and analysed to identify the potential spread of infection in your area (district, state or country). The manual method works when the number of infected people are low but as numbers increase, ...