Contact tracing feature of Aarogya Setu disabled, data deleted: Govt

The contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu app has been disabled and the contact tracing data collected through the app has been deleted, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Chandrasekhar said that as per the protocol decided by the empowered group on May 11, 2020, officials of the Union and state health and family welfare ministry, the national and state disaster management authorities and district civil surgeons were given access to the data collected through the Aarogya Setu.

The Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management – the competent authority to extend the protocol – was dissolved in September 2020.