Rights group IFF moves PMO, MHA against mandatory app download

NEW DELHI: Digital rights advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation along with 45 other organisations have made a representation to the Prime Minister’s office and the Home ministry against the coercion to use the Aarogya Setu app in Noida and ‘100% coverage’ in all workplaces, calling the COVID tracker as a ‘privacy minefield’.

Separately, the body has also legally challenged Noida authorities’s order of criminally prosecuting people who have not downloaded the app in their phones.

In a legal representation to Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), Gautam Buddha Nagar district in Noida date May 6, IFF said that the order is contrary to law as Section 144 orders