The Indian authorities’s contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, has had a tumultuous historical past. The app was accused a number of instances of being an enormous privateness drawback for its customers. After a protracted string of accusations, and of individuals determining new methods to guard their knowledge from the app, the federal government lastly made it open supply.

Well in the present day the federal government is taking one other step to creating the app extra acceptable for the customers. You now lastly have management over your knowledge, and you’ll delete your account if you would like. Doing so will completely take away your account, and your knowledge from the app. However, keep in mind that your knowledge will stay on authorities servers for 30 days after deletion of your account.

Other than that, the app has additionally added permissions to permit different apps to learn your well being knowledge. You can discover the choice throughout the app’s settings.

With this step, the Aarogya Setu app is attempting to get a bit nearer to one thing that customers would possibly wish to have on their cellphone. After all, not giving customers any methodology to delete their accounts was positively a giant pink flag.

As of now, the brand new options are solely obtainable within the Aarogya Setu app on Android gadgets. However, an replace for iOS gadgets is on the way in which. So, in case you are an iPhone person, you will notice the brand new choices quickly.