Searched for
CONTACT TRACING APPS
Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...- PNG gas scam: Man clicked on bill link & kept losing money until Rs 31 lakh was drained; 21 others fell for the same fraudFake gas bill update scam: A cyber fraud has targeted 22 individuals in Thane, Maharashtra. Victims received fake gas bill update messages,...
- Bengaluru techie quit his Rs 30 lakh job to chase a dangerous dream, only to end up being arrestedDelhi Police have arrested a 31-year-old Bengaluru-based software engineer, Ravi Rathore, for allegedly running a fake online trading racke...
- Why travellers are turning to the zodiac for vacation planningPeople are increasingly using astrocartography to guide major life choices. This practice, which maps planetary influences on locations, he...
- Sunetra Pawar gets relief as ITAT scraps Rs 32.14 crore tax addition against Ajit Pawar, calls evidence linking ‘DD’ to leader insufficientThe Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has cancelled tax proceedings against Sunetra Ajit Pawar. A Rs 32.14 crore addition treated as unexplaine...
- Contact tracing feature of Aarogya Setu disabled, data deleted: GovtRajeev Chandrasekhar said that as per the protocol decided by the empowered group on May 11, 2020, officials of the Union and state health ...
- Aarogya Setu to help build a database of plasma donorsAarogya Setu, the government’s contact-tracing app launched about a year ago, has been updated with a new module to synchronise with the cu...
- With Aarogya Setu we can identify a place before it turns into a hotspot: Abhishek Singh"Contact tracing has emerged as one of the key components of Covid-19 pandemic management," Abhishek Singh, CEO of MyGov and Digital India ...
- Is Aarogya Setu app a game changer in India's Covid fight? Six months on, opinion is divided!Central government authorities who built the app claim that contact tracing through Aarogya Setu yields a positivity rate of close to 27%, ...
- A bridge too far? Aarogya Setu, India's gamechanger app, is losing its charmNotwithstanding its widespread adoption, Aarogya Setu has lately been hobbled by a host of factors.
- Aarogya Setu app not mandatory for air, rail travel: Centre to Karnataka HCAdditional Solicitor General MN Nargund told the Court that a person can travel by air and railways without having downloaded the Aarogya S...
- Drones, contact tracing apps became more acceptable during COVID-19 than ever before: India at UNReferring to the Aarogya Setu mobile app, India told the high-level meeting that the expedited development of the contact tracing app and i...
- Millions are on contact-tracing apps with poor privacy safeguardsThese apps have garnered several million downloads already, but many lack a clear or strong privacy policy although they collect personal i...
- We’ve to guard against Covid apps increasing state power: Nandan NilekaniNandan Nilekani has cautioned that contact tracing apps run the risk of increasing state power.
- Cities, states launch Covid-19 apps across India, many lack privacy controlsThese apps have garnered several million downloads already, but many lack a clear or strong privacy policy although they collect personal i...
- Government makes Aarogya Setu open source; launches bug bounty programmeThe government hopes to leverage the expertise of top technical brains in the country to improve the platform by releasing the source code,...
- India launches contact-tracing app for JioPhones in Coronavirus battleIndia, which imposed the world's biggest shutdown in late March to battle the spread of the coronavirus, last month launched the Aarogya Se...
- MIT gives just 2 out of 5 stars to Centre's Covid trackerMassachusetts Institute of Technology has given two out of five stars to Aarogya Setu, reigniting the debate around the privacy policies of...
- New plea in Kerala HC against Aarogya Setu appThis is the second petition in the last one week against the government’s directive to compulsorily download the app for all public and pri...
- Apple, Google to create contact tracing technology to fight coronavirus spreadThe technology will first be available in mid-May as software tools available to contact tracing apps endorsed by public health authorities.
Load More
