By Aditi Agrawal and Trisha Jalan Deep Kalra, CEO of MakeMyTrip, finally acknowledged the involvement of the company, not individual developers in their personal capacities, in the development of India's contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu during the earnings call for Q4FY20 on June 26. "[O]ur technology team has also contributed immensely to help the government develop and launch a COVID tracing app called Aarogya Setu. ... I’m pleased to share that this app has been downloaded over 130 million times, and I’m especially proud that our small team of talented developers and engineers have been able to contribute to the welfare of our society in a very meaningful and direct way." — Deep Kalra, CEO of MakeMyTrip [emphases ours] This is despite the fact that when the app was launched on April 2, when MediaNama reached out to MakeMyTrip to confirm their involvement in the project, we were told, “While we are involved in multiple conversations with industry bodies and government, Go-MMT is not involved in it.” Similarly, Jaydeep Dutta, Senior Vice President (UX Design) at MakeMyTrip, in a previous webinar, had said that he is a private volunteer, and in an interview with MediaNama in April, Arnab Kumar, the then Program Director of Frontier Technologies at NITI Aayog, who has been spearheading the project, had said that all private individuals who are contributing to this project are doing so in their personal capacity. We know from our interviews with Rahul Matthan (who developed the app's privacy policy) and Arnab…
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