India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1001360/india-aarogya-setu-covid-app-mandatory
Millions of Indians have no choice but to download the country’s tracking technology if they want to keep their jobs or avoid reprisals. The world has never seen anything quite like Aarogya Setu. Two months ago, India’s app for coronavirus contact tracing didn’t exist ; now it has nearly 100 million users. Prime Minister Narendra Modi boosted it on release by urging every one of the country’s 1.3 billion people to download it, and the result was that within two weeks of launch it became the (...)
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