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| In India Corona Tracker must be downloaded for all employees |
India has ordered all public and private employees to use the government-sponsored contact tracking application and maintain social separation in the office as it begins to remove partial blockages in remote areas. Most affected by the emerging coronavirus (COVID-19) COVID-19.
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday: India, second only to the population, is the second in the world and will extend the restrictions imposed on the country for another two weeks starting on Monday, but it will be less dangerous. The area was able to "greatly relax".
India launched the Aarogya Setu app last month - called (Health Bridge) - a bluetooth-based system and global positioning system (GPS) that notifies users who may be in contact with people who have then been infected with the virus.
"All public and private sector employees must use Aarogya Setu," the Interior Ministry said later on Friday. The company president will be responsible for "ensuring 100% compliance" among employees.
Officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the lawyer who developed the privacy policy for the Aarogya Setu application told Reuters that the application should be downloaded against at least 1.3 billion people and 200 million phones will be effective. According to the Ministry of Technology, the app has been downloaded almost 83 million times in a country with over 500 million smartphone users so far.
The mandatory use of the application caught the attention of data protection advocates who said: No one knows how to use data and who claim that data protection laws do not apply in India application. She told New Delhi: The application will not violate privacy as all data is collected anonymously.
The Ministry of Science and Technology told Reuters in late April that the app could help authorities identify hotspots and improve health care targeting, adding that the information was only used for management and required medical intervention.
Critics have also indicated that around 400 million Indians do not have a smartphone, and are therefore not included in this move. The government said on Friday that the reopening of the office also included ensuring a time period between work shifts and interfering lunch breaks to curb the spread of the corona virus, which has infected 3.3 million people worldwide and killed more than 230,000 people. Over 37,000 deaths and 1,218 deaths have been reported in India.