Security News > 2020 > May > India acknowledges, but brushes aside, features-not-bugs in Aarogya Setu virus contact-tracing app

The Indian government has acknowledged "Potential security issues" in the Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app which its opposition labels as a "Surveillance system with no oversight", but says the code issues are not that big a deal.

Unlike other nations' contact-tracing apps, Aarogya Setu is not open source or known to be based on other open-source efforts.

India's government has pushed it aggressively and even made it compulsory - although one Reg reader ordered to install the app was able to brush off authorities' insistence because his phone couldn't access Indian app stores.

So why bother to rebut two minor issues with the app? Perhaps because India's opposition National Congress Party has heavily criticised Aarogya Setu.

Aarogya Setu May 5, 2020 Also in India .... Also in India, and also announced by tweet, Wipro will turn over one of its vacant campuses to local health authorities for use as a hospital.

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