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BENGALURU: The Karnataka HC on Monday restrained the central government and National Informatics Centre (NIC) from sharing data obtained from users of Aarogya Setu app unless express consent has been obtained from users to share the same. A division bench headed by chief justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, in an interim order on a PIL filed by Bengaluru-based Anivar A Aravind, found there was no informed consent from users of the app to share their response data as provided in the Aarogya Setu Data Access and Knowledge Sharing Protocol 2020. “Prima facie, we find sharing and use of response data will infringe on the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution,” the bench said. ....