IFF moves standing panel on IT on data privacy in Aarogya Setu app

New Delhi: Digital rights advocacy group Internet India Foundation has written to the Standing Committee on Information Technology – a parliamentary body chaired by MP Shashi Tharoor – to commence urgent hearings on the Aarogya Setu app for alleged violation of citizens’ right to privacy.

“We have asked that significant Government officials – especially from the National Informatics Center (NIC) – be invited to depose before the Committee for official disclosure of the source code, product architecture and all official files including the service contracts and rules executed with the developers of the app who are being classified as, ‘volunteers’ in press reports,” IFF said in an email to Tharoor on Friday.

IFF urged that the hearing should specially involve medical health professionals, academics from IITs and digital rights and public policy experts to provide inputs.