Karnataka HC bars Centre, NIC from sharing data of Aarogya Setu users

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Monday restrained the central government and National Informatics Centre (NIC) from sharing data obtained from users of Aarogya Setu app unless express consent has been obtained from users to share the data.

A division bench headed by chief justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, in an interim order on a PIL filed by Anivar A Aravind, a Bengaluru resident, found there is no informed consent from users of the app to share their response data as provided in the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol 2020.