KN Govindacharya sends legal notice to govt on Aarogya Setu privacy concern

New Delhi: Former RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya has sent a legal notice to the government alleging several privacy and legal concerns with respect to the Aarogya Setu contact tracing app.

The Aarogya Setu app, which has been downloaded by around 90 million people, has been made mandatory for government as well as private sector employees and for people residing in containment zones – a localised area that has reported a positive case of Covid-19 infection.

Govindacharya, through his lawyer Virag Gupta, sent the notice to Neeta Verma, the chief of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which runs the government’s IT backbone.