In a written reply to Congress Lok Sabha MP Hibi Eden on whether or not the Centre responded to the incident wherein a US-based tech agency was authorised by the Kerala authorities to collate, gather, and handle and deal with well being knowledge of individuals, Union Minister of State for Info and Know-how, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Wednesday stated no knowledge pertaining to Kerala was shared with the US tech firm.
“We’re not conscious of any such incident wherein a US-based tech agency was authorised by the Kerala authorities to collate, gather, handle and deal with the well being knowledge of the folks. Neither was any reference made by the Kerala authorities on this regard as nicely,” he stated.
To a different query from the MP on whether or not the information collected by Aarogya Setu until Might 10, 2022, was deleted in accordance with the Aarogya Setu Information Entry and Information Sharing Protocol, 2020, Chandrasekhar stated, “The information has been deleted in accordance with the protocol.”
“In accordance with the provisions of the Aarogya Setu Information Entry and Information Sharing Protocol, 2020, the contact tracing characteristic of the Aarogya Setu cellular utility has been discontinued,” the MoS, IT stated in response to the Congress MP, who wished to know if there was a requirement to share the contact tracing knowledge collected by the Aarogya Setu cellular utility.
Aarogya Setu is an Indian Covid-19 contact tracing, syndromic mapping and self-assessment digital service, primarily a cellular utility, developed by the Nationwide Informatics Centre below the Ministry of Electronics and Info Know-how.
The app logged greater than 100 million downloads inside 40 days of its launch in April 2020, throughout the first Covid wave in India.
