No Denial of Services For Not Having Aarogya Setu: Court
“This is an important order ensuring user rights and consent as baseline for what one should run on their personal computing devices,” Aravind said. “I hope this will make an impact in a larger landscape where we are seeing a trend of more and more apps pushed for availing citizen rights in a post pandemic phase,” he added.
The Bench also noted that the Central government will not deny any benefit or services to a citizen only on the ground that the user has not installed Aarogya Setu.
In addition to this, the Bench noted that the informed consent is limited to collection of information as provided in the privacy policy. As of now, the Bench has refrained NIC and Union of India from sharing data without informed consent.
Prasanth Sugathan, Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Centre, India (SFLC.in) said, “The action of the government in providing for data transfer to third parties and the mission creep of the Aarogya…