Aarogya Setu: India’s official coronavirus surveillance application released
The Government of India is officially releasing a coronavirus surveillance application – Aarogya Setu Last week, we reported that India is building coronavirus surveillance based on the location of your cell phone. Now the government has officially released an app called Aarogya Setu (which translates from Sanskrit as “Bridge of Health”). The core function of the application remains the same as the beta: using your phone’s location data and Bluetooth to determine if you were close to COVID-19 infected people, searching for a database of known cases. The app determines…
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