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Aarogya Setu user data shared with police in J&K, adding to privacy fears

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The administration of J&K has revealed that it shared user data collected by Indian government’s Covid-19 contact tracing app Aarogya Setu with local police in the UT’s Kulgam district. The shared data included the list of people that had tested positive of Covid as well as the data related to recoveries and casualties. As per data sharing protocol, the data can only be shared with government-run public health institutions