Friday, 24 March, 2023

40 contact tracing apps launched by authorities have poor privacy safeguards

<p>Across the India states, municipal corporations, and police together have launched around 40 different apps to check the spread of COVID-19, providing health information, and generate e-passes. These apps, having a few million downloads already, lack strong privacy policy despite collecting personal information i.e location data, photos, media, camera, call information, WiFi etc. Privacy activists have termed the apps&rsquo; as ineffective, weak and confusing.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>