BENGALURU: States, city municipal corporations as well as police departments across India have launched 40 apps for Covid-19 contact tracing, quarantine tracking, providing health information and to generate e-passes, even as the central government’s Aarogya Setu app remains the face of Covid-19 contact tracing efforts across the country.
These apps have garnered several million downloads already, but many lack a clear or strong privacy policy although they collect personal information ..
“While
the applications have been developed independently by each government,
we have observed some questionable trends, practices, and policy
provisions pertaining to the apps,” Software Freedom Law Centre said in a
report that studied the privacy policies, terms of service, and
permission demanded by these apps. “It is shocking to see the absence of
Terms of Service or a Privacy Policy that binds the developer/publisher
of the app and its end-user.”
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