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                   The use of the app is voluntary; however, many

                 organisations  including  airport  managements                            Therefore, the government, while ensuring the
                                                                                          ‘Fundamental Rights’ to the citizens, it  should
                 have mandated the use of the app in their day-                           also provide proper facilities for education
                 to-day operations to  identify potential cases.  In                      such as access to internet in order to ensure
                 order to avoid misuse of these intricate details, the                    that the education doesn’t get hampered.
                 government should ensure the systematic  use of

                 records  and take all  appropriate  steps to protect                that  needs to  be considered seriously  by
                 them. There have been questions raised before  the                  the government and the application of the Aarogya
                 CIC on the ownership of the App.                                    Setu  App raises various concerning questions

                    Therefore, the government, while  ensuring  the                  regarding one’s violation of the right to privacy. It
                 ‘Fundamental Rights’ to  the  citizens, it    should                needs to make sure that these fundamental rights
                 also provide proper facilities for education such                   are not violated in the time of such crisis and also
                 as access to  internet in order to  ensure that  the                the judiciary  must  intervene from  time to  time in
                 education doesn’t get hampered.                                     order to uphold  the fundamental  rights enshrined

                   Privacy      is    another      concerning       issue            under the Indian Constitution.






                      Dr VBalakista Reddy is Professor of International Law in NALSAR University of Law,

                        Hyderabad. An internationally recognized expert in Air and Space Law, Dr Reddy

                  presented papers on The Application of Satellite Technologies in Civil Aviation: Emerging
                       Legal Issues” at the UNISPACE-III conference held at Vienna, Austria in July, 1999






















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