Published 14:03 IST, March 28th 2020

What is the Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker? Find out if you are safe

What is the Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker? How does it work? How is the app responsible for revealing personal data of positive patients? Find out here.

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Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker app has published details of people under home quarantine in state. But  matter raised privacy concerns when Karnataka government started publishing home dresses, office dresses and more in application of those who have tested positive for Coronavirus in state. software is available for public downlo on Play store.

What is Karnataka Covid 19 Quarantine tracker?

Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker app helps users to understand if y came in contact with any Coronavirus positive patient during day. tracker app monitors location of people and provides extensive data of travel history of patients and user. application shows two dots, ed dots signify travel history of positive Coronavirus patients and blue dots signify travel history of mobile user. On zooming in and ing on one of markers, a small pop up shows date, time and details of particular location that patient has visited.

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How can someone test mselves in Karnataka Covid 19 Quarantine tracker?

If travel history of user matches with positive patients, user can check for symptoms in app. If person's symptoms match with those of virus, Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker app will tify user about nearest test centres and medical facilities where one can choose to get mselves checked.

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How is Karnataka Covid 19 Quarantine tracker inving privacy of home quarantined people?

Karnataka COVID-19 Quarantine tracker app shows  patients’ travel history, spots y visited, and exact time that y were at spot. This information can be useful for users to if y visited same public place as a positive person. However, Karnataka government has allegedly also revealed people’s home dresses in app. 

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However, government denies giving out personal information and defends itself by saying that it does t reveal name of person. But, during lockdown period, police has been taking strict action and is treating people stepping out of ir houses with a stern behaviour and revealing such details from COVID-19 tracker apps creates panic in society which may cause problems for home quarantined people.

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14:03 IST, March 28th 2020