BENGALURU: Eight organizations and 145 individuals have written to the Ministry of Health and Family, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the IT Standing Committee raising serious technical, legal, ethical, and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu<\/a> and other apps introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This joint statement was drafted by
the Forum for Medical Ethics Society<\/a>, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, All India People’s Science Network, and Internet Freedom Foundation<\/a>. The other four endorsee organizations are Janchetna Sansthan, Lok Manch, Rethink Aadhaar Campaign India<\/a>, and the Right To Food Campaign. The statement presents a set of 16 demands to safeguard the sensitive personal data of citizens and prevent exclusion.

The
Aarogya Setu<\/a> mobile app<\/a> has been mired in controversy was introduced by the government as a contact tracing<\/a> app in April. Internet and privacy activists have raised concerns about commercial or law enforcement use of sensitive personal data collected by the app. They have cautioned against the deployment of such technologies in the absence of a data protection law in India. Others have complained of the app's alleged weak anonymization practices which make its users susceptible to re-identification and criticized the lack of transparency surrounding the app's code and algorithms.

The demands are around proportionality, legality, necessity, and oversight structure. Some of the demands are the full release of specifications including
cryptography<\/a>, anonymization specifications, Application Programming Interface (API) specifications, and Bluetooth specifications. The statement has also demanded the release of the source code for the current version of the App, saying the released code does not match with the one in use. It added that the app must not in any way be made mandatory by government or private actors.

The statement also suggested that the government should commit to permanently destroy the data and systems being built via AS App at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

\"Among other things, the focus must be on assuring the public that these are temporary interventions which will not devolve into permanent surveillance and monitoring systems,\" it said.

In terms of legality, the statement said suitable legislation is required aim to hold the Union and State governments and private actors accountable for leakage or any inappropriate use of App data during epidemics and communicable disease outbreaks. It added that under this legislative framework, governments may only access patient data through hospital records, and must preserve patient anonymity.

The statement suggested the agencies\/institutions concerned should publish periodic reports informing the public if, and to what extent, the App is augmenting the Government’s response in treating and containing the spread of Covid-19.

\" Based on such feedback loops, these institutions should be empowered to make decisions for course correction or even discontinuation of the programme itself, and the permanent destruction of the systems created,\" it said.
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八个组织和145个人写信给政府问题上Aarogya是以应用

的Aarogya是以移动应用已经陷入争议,政府推出了4月份接触者追踪程序。互联网和隐私维权人士表示担忧商业或执法使用敏感的个人数据收集的应用。

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这一联合声明起草对医学伦理社会论坛Jan Swasthya激励计划,所有印度人的科学网络,互联网自由基金会。其他四个被背书人组织Janchetna Sansthan洛克Manch,考虑印度Aadhaar运动,食物权运动。声明提供了一组16要求维护公民的敏感的个人信息,防止排斥。

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Aarogya是以移动应用程序已经陷入争议,政府推出了接触者追踪4月份的应用。互联网和隐私维权人士表示担忧商业或执法使用敏感的个人数据收集的应用。他们警告称,这类技术的部署在缺乏数据保护法律在印度。其他人抱怨应用所谓的弱匿名化实践使其用户容易鉴定和批评缺乏透明度和算法的应用程序的代码。

周围的需求比例、合法性、必要性、和监管结构。有些要求是规范包括完整的版本密码学、匿名化规范应用程序编程接口(API)规格,和蓝牙规范。声明还要求释放当前版本的应用程序的源代码,称发布代码不匹配的使用。它补充说,应用程序不能以任何方式进行强制性的政府或私人的演员。

声明还建议政府应该致力于永久破坏数据和系统构建通过应用程序结束时COVID-19大流行。

“除此之外,重点必须向公众保证这些临时干预措施不会下放到永久监测和监测系统,”它说。

合法性而言,声明说,需要适当的立法目的持有联邦和各州政府和私人参与者负责泄漏或任何不当使用的应用程序数据在传染病和传染病的爆发。它补充说,这一立法框架下,政府只能通过医院访问病人数据记录,而且必须保护病人的隐私。

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声明中建议有关部门/机构应该发布定期报告告知公众,如果到什么程度,应用在治疗和增加政府的反应包含Covid-19的传播。

“基于这样的反馈循环,这些机构应该有权决定航向修正甚至中止项目本身,和永久性破坏的系统创建,”它说。

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BENGALURU: Eight organizations and 145 individuals have written to the Ministry of Health and Family, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the IT Standing Committee raising serious technical, legal, ethical, and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu<\/a> and other apps introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This joint statement was drafted by
the Forum for Medical Ethics Society<\/a>, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, All India People’s Science Network, and Internet Freedom Foundation<\/a>. The other four endorsee organizations are Janchetna Sansthan, Lok Manch, Rethink Aadhaar Campaign India<\/a>, and the Right To Food Campaign. The statement presents a set of 16 demands to safeguard the sensitive personal data of citizens and prevent exclusion.

The
Aarogya Setu<\/a> mobile app<\/a> has been mired in controversy was introduced by the government as a contact tracing<\/a> app in April. Internet and privacy activists have raised concerns about commercial or law enforcement use of sensitive personal data collected by the app. They have cautioned against the deployment of such technologies in the absence of a data protection law in India. Others have complained of the app's alleged weak anonymization practices which make its users susceptible to re-identification and criticized the lack of transparency surrounding the app's code and algorithms.

The demands are around proportionality, legality, necessity, and oversight structure. Some of the demands are the full release of specifications including
cryptography<\/a>, anonymization specifications, Application Programming Interface (API) specifications, and Bluetooth specifications. The statement has also demanded the release of the source code for the current version of the App, saying the released code does not match with the one in use. It added that the app must not in any way be made mandatory by government or private actors.

The statement also suggested that the government should commit to permanently destroy the data and systems being built via AS App at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

\"Among other things, the focus must be on assuring the public that these are temporary interventions which will not devolve into permanent surveillance and monitoring systems,\" it said.

In terms of legality, the statement said suitable legislation is required aim to hold the Union and State governments and private actors accountable for leakage or any inappropriate use of App data during epidemics and communicable disease outbreaks. It added that under this legislative framework, governments may only access patient data through hospital records, and must preserve patient anonymity.

The statement suggested the agencies\/institutions concerned should publish periodic reports informing the public if, and to what extent, the App is augmenting the Government’s response in treating and containing the spread of Covid-19.

\" Based on such feedback loops, these institutions should be empowered to make decisions for course correction or even discontinuation of the programme itself, and the permanent destruction of the systems created,\" it said.
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