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 andenable individuals to seek deletion of their data from the government’sAarogyaSetu 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 orthose who come in contact with the infected person.
“Lot of work has been done over data privacy. A goodprivacy policy has been made to ensure that personal data of people are notmisused,” Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) secretary AjayPrakashSawhney told reporters.
The app alerts its users if they come in close contact with any infected person.