Though Aarogya Setu app downloaded in 9.8 crore smartphones, it is illegal to mandate the use of it
By MYBRANDBOOK
The government has announced that the Aarogya Setu app has been downloaded in 9.8 crore smartphones so far.
Ajay Sawhney, Chairman of Empowered Group 9 says, "It will be available on Jio feature smartphones from tomorrow. We have worked a lot on data privacy of Aarogya Setu users and made sure that user data are not compromised."
Though there is a rising controversy against the government that they are mandating to download the app.
Former Supreme Court Judge B N Srikrishna, who chaired the committee that came out with the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, termed the government’s push mandating the use of Aarogya Setu app “utterly illegal”.
On May 1, the Ministry of Home Affairs, in its guidelines after the nationwide lockdown was extended, made Aarogya Setu App mandatory for employees of private and public sector offices. It also asked local authorities to ensure 100% coverage of the app in containment zones. The guidelines were issued by the National Executive Committee set up under the National Disaster Management Act (NDMA), 2005.
Justice Srikrishna said that the guidelines cannot be considered as having sufficient legal backing to make the use of Aarogya Setu mandatory. These pieces of legislation — both the National Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act — are for a specific reason. The national executive committee in his view is not a statutory body.
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