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New report raises fresh concerns over govt's Aarogya Setu application

The Centre has made the downloading of the app mandatory vide an order dated May 1, 2020 in all public and private offices, as well as in containment zones.

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The report has raised several privacy concerns. It notes that to increase transparency, the app must be an open source app, and that data auditing must be allowed to settle concerns regarding lack of checks and balances.

Geetika Srivastava New Delhi
The critically acclaimed movie - The Dark Knight - revolves around a machine, created by Batman, which he uses to track the real-time movement of people in the city of Gotham in order to keep tabs on his nemesis.

This raises several privacy concerns for citizens that are voiced by other characters in the movie, and in the end, the machine is destroyed altogether.
 
This analogy was given by the think-tank, Dialogue (founded by researcher Kazim Rizvi), in a report published on Wednesday and co-authored by the body's research scholars, in collaboration with lawyers.

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