Indian State Quarantined With Selfies Since Indian Prime

Indian State Quarantined With Selfies

Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21 day national lockdown on March 24, police and administrative officials in every state are under pressure to keep people under quarantine. In a new mobile app called Quarantine Watch, the government of the southern Indian state of Karnataka is tracking people it has placed under home quarantine. To see whether people stay put, the app follows users' movements through GPS — and asks them to submit hourly selfies to prove they haven't left the house. "A selfie an hour will keep the police away, " wrote the authorities in a tweet on March 20 announcing the app. The only exception is for the time you're presumably asleep — from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m. This is being done to ensure that people remain under quarantine, and apparently they're monitoring them closely. Violators, it warned, would be sent to “a government-run mass quarantine center. ” Quarantine Watch is just one of several apps and other digital surveillance measures that states and the central government have launched to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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