Govt. releases source code for Aarogya Setu app

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The government on Tuesday announced opening the source code of its coronavirus tracking app, Aarogya Setu, for scrutiny by the developer community to address privacy concerns and launching a bug bounty programme for finding security flaws.   

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant asserted that no other government in the world has been open source at this scale. The government has opened the source code to address concerns around privacy of data being collected by the contact tracing app.      

“Transparency, privacy and security have been the core design principle of Aarogya Setu. Opening the source code to developer community signifies Government of India continuing principal to these commitments. No other government anywhere in the world has been open source at this scale,” Kant said.