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Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the worlds smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, after privacy concerns...

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation...

26 April 2020 9:40 PM IST

Apart from Aarogya Setu, the Centre and state governments are using at least 28 mobile applications to tackle the covid-19 pandemic. (Representative Image | AP)

28 covid apps used by Centre, States not open source, cannot be...

Privacy concerns abound as independent developers cannot study the code

26 April 2020 4:40 PM IST

Google, which collects large amounts of data from users of its myriad services, plans to publish information about the movement of people to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of physical distancing measures.

Data privacy at stake amid governments' increasing 'surveillance' on...

Most governments are accessing location data of mobile phone users in anonymised forms, but rights groups worry about...

4 April 2020 3:24 PM IST

The mCOVID-19 mobile application can be downloaded from mcovid19.mizoram.gov.in. (Representative Image)

Mizoram government launches mobile app on COVID-19 data, resources

Updates on the statistics of the state, India and the world will be provided by the app

4 April 2020 2:52 PM IST