Aarogya Setu: The story of a failure
5 min readMay 6, 2020
In order to fight Covid19, the Indian government released a mobile contact tracing application called Aarogya Setu. This application is available on the PlayStore and 90 million Indians already installed it.
This application is currently getting a lot of attention in India. In Noida, if people doesn’t have the app installed on their phone, a person can be imprisoned up to 6 months or fined up to Rs 1000.
Access to app internal files
On April 3, 2 days after the launch of the app, I decided to give a look to the version 1.0.1 of the application. It was 11:54 pm and I spent less than 2 hours looking at it.
