Covid-19: India makes source code of contact-tracing app public


A man wearing protective gear speaks on his mobile phone as he waits for transport upon his arrival from New Delhi outside a railway station, after a limited reopening of India's giant rail network following a nearly seven-week lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Ahmedabad, India. — Reuters

NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday it was making public the source code of its coronavirus contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu for Google's Android smartphones, a move digital rights activists said will boost the security of users.

The bulk of India's roughly 500 million smartphone users have Android devices and the source code for the app's iOS version will be released in the next two weeks, India's tech ministry said in a statement.

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