Tehseen Poonawalla has written to the Chief Justice of India, urging him to take suo motu cognizance of National Informatics Centre’s claim that it has no information on who created the Aarogya Setu app and how. .Poonawalla has requested the Chief Justice of India to direct the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India to file an affidavit on details of data collected through Aarogya Setu and also, to delete the data collected by the app..In his letter to the Chief Justice, Poonawalla has claimed that Aarogya Setu App has merely acted as a tool for sophisticated surveillance and has collected information from more than 16.23 crore users including people from defence services, government officials, judges etc..Stating that Aarogya Setu app has completely failed its purpose of contact tracing, Poonawalla has said,.“Making Aarogya Setu compulsory has not served any purpose, instead it has accumulated a huge data base about personal information without being subjected to any data protection laws.”.Stating that denial of information by authorities under the Right to Information Act was unacceptable, the Central Information Commission recently directed the NIC to explain in writing as to how the Aarogya Setu website was created with the domain name "gov.in" if they have no information about it..How is there no information about creation of the app?: CIC issues show cause notice to officials for evasive reply to RTI on Aarogya Setu .The CIC has also issued show-cause notices to four Central government officials for prima facie obstruction of information and providing an evasive reply to an RTI application concerning Aarogya Setu..Following the order, the Central Government issued a clarification saying that the Aarogya Setu app was developed in a transparent manner and all information of its creation was available in public domain. .Read the Letter:
