Now your employer can check your health status on Aarogya Setu as govt opens app’s API for businesses

Ministry of Electronics and IT on Saturday opened Aarogya Setu’s application programming interface (API) for businesses with more than 50 employees “to check the status of Aarogya Setu and integrate it into its various work-from-home features,” the ministry said in a statement. The organisations would be able to keep an eye on the health status of their employees or any other user who provide consent to share his/her health status with them. Open API, also known as public API, is available publicly to software developers to help application programmes interact with each other and share data.

The API would be available only for businesses registered in India and shall provide only the Aarogya Setu status and name of the Aarogya Setu User given the user has provided consent for it. “No other personal data shall be provided through the API,” the ministry said.