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15. Aarogya Setu protocol (with Arghya Sengupta)
Balancing purpose with privacy?
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Arghya Sengupta from the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, talks to host Pavan Srinath about the Aarogya Setu app. He discusses how the app works, how it can benefit health services as well as app users, its trade-offs on personal privacy, and how its use should be voluntary and not mandated by rules.
Aarogya Setu is a COVID-19 tracking app launched by the Government of India on April 2, 2020 and has been downloaded over a 100 million times till date. Arghya and a team from Vidhi assisted the government in drafting a Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol for Aarogya Setu, which was released on May 11, 2020.
Arghya is the Founder and Research Director of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a legal think tank based in Delhi and Bangalore. Arghya was also a member of the Justice B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India.
Aarogya Setu Data Access & Knowledge Sharing Protocol: PDF | Vidhi Explainer
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Arghya Sengupta
Arghya Sengupta is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi. His areas of specialisation are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on a number of government committees including most recently the Justice B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India. Arghya has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court, Parliament, fundamental rights in leading law journals such as Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is also a columnist at The Telegraph, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India. He has most recently authored a book “Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary” (Cambridge, 2019) which builds on his doctoral work at Oxford University. Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College
