Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) hired under the National Health Mission in Haryana are protesting an app that they're being required to use for tracking their work and their GPS location out of concerns of surveillance, the Times of India reported. 22,000 workers will not be using the MDM 360 Shield app put out by the government, Asha Workers Union (Haryana) general secretary Surekha told the publication. The union leader told the times that the app was intended to conduct covert surveillance of ASHA workers to make workers "leaking" information "fall in line". The state's NHM coordinator Chand Singh Madaan told the Times of India that the workers were being misled by political interests. HuffPost reported a similar tracking system with smartwatches last year that tracked municipal workers in Panchkula, Haryana. As the publication reported, state governments and municipalities are…
