To track people placed under home quarantine, the government in one Indian state is using a new app that follows users' movements — and asks them to submit hourly selfies to prove they haven't left the house.
:"Superb plan Sir...kudos to the team who thought this novel idea. At least this will bring some discipline in them."
But the list has had unintended consequences."The government seems to have released the list in order to ensure that the epidemic does not spread but without any idea of the implications this will have on the personal privacy of individuals," says Karnataka-based Rahul Mathhan, lawyer and author ofThe very day that it was published, the list was circulated on WhatsApp groups. Whatsapp has 400 million users in India, providing a far greater audience than those who could view it online.
A writer living in Bengaluru says that her aunt and uncle found their addresses on the list. The couple had returned to India after traveling through Europe the week before and were placed under home quarantine. A local business person spotted their address and leaked their identities on WhatsApp. The couple knew the identity of the leaker because the post originated from his mobile number, which they had saved on their phone.
In the online posts, the business person called the couple idiots and criticized them for having traveled and potentially brought back a disease that could endanger the community. A friend of theirs who was a lawyer had to step in and threaten the business person with legal action before he would stop.
Then things took a turn for the worse. R's aunt and uncle showed symptoms of COVID-19 and had to be transferred to a hospital, where they are both still battling the virus. Neighbors and bystanders took videos of the authorities taking the couple away and sterilizing their home. R says that says the videos, made public on WhatsApp — on top of the diagnoses — caused the entire family enormous distress.
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