The government’s directive mandating the installation of Aarogya Setu on every smartphone in the country is “utterly illegal”, according to former Supreme Court Judge, B. N. Srikrishna. In an interview to The Indian Express, Justice Srikrishna expressed his surprise at how the government could pass an order that goes against all existing privacy laws in the country, saying: “Under what law do you mandate it on anyone? So far it is not backed by any law”.
Stung by criticism from various quarters, the government on Monday issued a new set of guidelines called the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing protocol for storing and processing data collected through the controversial app.
