India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app Aarogya Setu, or 'Health Bridge', to fight the spread of COVID-19.
NEW DELHI - India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, raising fears that the world's second-most populous nation is on its way to Chinese-style methods of high tech social control.
And it mimics China's health QR code system with a feature that rates a person's likely health status with green, orange or red colours, signifying whether the individual is safe, at high risk or a carrier of the virus. "Once your fundamental rights are being breached left and right, without anybody to question you, and if the courts are not going to help you, you're even worse than China."
A spokesman for the paramilitary CISF said it had made no such recommendations to the government, while the Delhi Metro said it was yet to finalise its plan to resume services. The government intends to do that, two senior officials from India's technology ministry told Reuters, but declined to give a timeline.
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