Concerns about the Indian government’s new contact-tracing software stretch back more than a decade, to its controversial biometric data scheme. From CodaStory:
A better case could be made for Aarogya Setu were there more confidence in its effectiveness in tracking the virus. But Pahwa explained that the technology used by the app makes it prone to inaccuracy and its potential for reporting false positives high.
Siddharthya Roy, a Mumbai-based journalist who has reported extensively on Aadhaar, described how the system is now connected to “every possible facet, every possible transaction of our public lives.” “Aadhaar becomes a single point of failure for each individual,” he said. “Once it is linked to so many schemes, Aadhaar getting compromised means that they get compromised on multiple fronts.”
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