New Delhi,
The government on Monday issued a set of guidelines to be followed for data processing of AarogyaSetu app users and added a few clauses that may lead to imprisonment of persons found guilty of violating certain norms.
The new rules prohibit storage of data beyond 180 days and enable individuals to seek deletion of their data from the government’s AarogyaSetu related record within 30 days of raising the request.
The new norms allow collection of only demographic, contact, self assessment and location data of persons infected by the coronavirus or those who come in contact with the infected person.
“Lot of work has been done over data privacy. A good privacy policy has been made to ensure that personal data of people are not misused,” Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) secretary Ajay PrakashSawhney told reporters.
The app alerts its users if they come in close contact with any infected person. ( PTI )
