Aarogya Setu, the COVID-19 tracking app launched by the Government of India calculates data based on a person's interaction with others, using bluetooth, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. The government's target: 30 crore downloads in next few weeks. NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay speaks exclusively to Lalitesh Katragadda, the Advisor to the government on the Aarogya Setu app.
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Aditi Sharma
Totalitarian government.
Toni Olson
Just say it monitor’s everything, even when you 💩
Mÿ 3
Whats your point in that?
mohammed abdul razzaq
Thanks ndtv for getting some clarifications, appreciate your team is always standing with us, I will still doubt because why these things why it’s mandatory.
Abdul Kareem
I little bit worried about this app
Thanks for NDTV❤️ Clarifying it
Helping Hariom
This app is awesome
Pallavi Singh
Hamari sarkaar kuch kare na kare but aise chizoun me sab se aagey😬😬
FuturePerfect
3:43 Look at that man’s smile who helped the app. Now who wouldn’t trust that big forced smile.
Shubham Deol
answer to why the app is not open-source is not satisfactory at all.
S SINGH S
This is not to help people but a shift towards a dictatorship.
Ankit
Not satisfied with the answer on open source, this should be open source, it reflects the Transparency, what is govt. afraid of….
People will be downloading it through the play store or apple store….. Then there will not be Any possibility of downloading the altered or forged app….. Make it open source will always help people understanding it’s true functionality…..
Clearly they don’t want us to know certain things….
a b
Open source the damn thing
Abhay Kashyap
Government se anurodh h ki post office ki suvidha de jaye.. Jise bhar fase student ko notes mill ske or jise anye kammo ko lekar ke v..
My Family Channel
What about those who do not have smartphone? Around 50% of population, mostly poor, don’t have smartphone.
J D
They used pulwama soldiers martyrdom to hide their failures, how come they now waste this opportunity.
633K_4R1ND4M
Google Apple are making “Exposure Notification” api which is gps free… don’t ask for your name, age, gender, occupation, mobile number and give transparency of it’s working now just say Google and Apple is dumb enough to care about privacy… it’s a clear surveillance app…
633K_4R1ND4M
6:09 the answer given by him is rounding and not giving exact answer… 😂😂 dude how much app you make I will never use government app or social media