“The Kerala government has never authorised a US tech firm to gather, manage, and handle Arogya Setu  data. Kerala did not mention this either “said.

Chandrasekhar responded to another MP query by saying, “The data has been deleted in accordance with the protocol.”

“In accordance with the provisions of the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol, 2020, the contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu mobile application has been discontinued,” the MoS, IT told the Congress MP, who wanted to know if there was a desire to share the data.

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The National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology created Aarogya Setu, a mobile app for Covid-19 contact tracing, syndromic mapping, and self-assessment.

During India’s first Covid wave in April 2020, the app had over 100 million installs in 40 days.

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Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that only the bodies related to online gaming cannot regulate it and the regulator should be separated from the supremacy of the companies. According to Bhasha news, Chandrasekhar said after an open discussion with the representatives of gaming companies that the rules are expected to be notified by January 31. In this discussion, the side of the companies was heard on the proposed rules of the government regarding online gaming.

The government has issued draft rules for the regulation of online gaming, in which it has been proposed to create a self-regulatory mechanism. This was discussed with gaming companies.

Chandrasekhar said, it is wrong to assume that an industry body will automatically become a Self Regulatory Organization (SRO). No industry body will be a self-regulatory organization. It can only be a body that represents all the stakeholders.

He said that this self-regulatory organization will include representatives of all parties related to gaming – children, parents, players, government and gaming intermediary companies. Under the new law, all gaming companies will have to register with the Self Regulatory Organization.

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Public comments on the proposed rules are open until January 25. Earlier its deadline was January 17 only but the ministry has extended its duration.

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