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India making public source code of its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu
- Thursday | 28th May, 2020
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Tuesday it was making public the source code of its coronavirus contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu for Google’s Android smartphones, a move digital rights activists said will boost the security of users. “Transparency, privacy and security have been the core design principles of Aarogya Setu since its inception. Aarogya Setu (‘Health Bridge’) was launched by the government in early April as a key tool in containing the spread of COVID-19. A source code refers to programming instructions which are used to run an application. Udbhav Tiwari, the public policy adviser for internet firm Mozilla, said the Aarogya Setu app still had some ground to cover before it could claim to be truly open source.
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