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Contact tracing data of citizens from Aarogya Setu app deleted: Minister

Contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu mobile application has been discontinued and contact tracing data collected through it has been deleted

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BS Web Team New Delhi
Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar while replying to a Lok Sabha question said that the contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu mobile application has been discontinued and contact tracing data collected through it has been deleted.

On February 8, the Congress MP Amar Singh raised a question in Lok Sabha seeking details of the current legislation or protocol governing the data collected by Aarogya Setu app, and sought a list of the government or private agencies, organisations, institutes and individuals with access to that data.

Replying to the question on how the data collected through Aarogya

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