Government releases data processing protocol for Aarogya Setu app

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Monday released a data sharing protocol for the Aarogya Setu app, which said the Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management will review after six months.

“The Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol, 2020” outlines the ways in which the data collection through the government’s Covid-19 contact tracing app will take place.

MeitY secretary Ajay Sawhney is heading the empowered group on technology and data management during Covid. He told Business Standard on Sunday that the ministry was planning to bring out some guidelines to further define on what exactly can be done with the data.