Cry of privacy breach as Kerala cops tap call records of Covid patients

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala, whose scientific contact-tracing strategy in the initial weeks of the pandemic became a model for others to follow, has now worked up an ethical and legal storm with a controversial police decision to collect call detail records (CDR) of Covid-positive citizens and draw up “route maps” to trace those who came in contact with them.

Opposition parties and legal experts have termed the move a serious breach of privacy, citing the Supreme Court’s 2017 judgment in the K S Puttaswamy versus Union of India case.