Aarogya Setu app is now open source: what does it mean?

Aarogya Setu, India’s coronavirus contact-tracing and self-assessment app is now open source. Health Ministry launches Aarogya Setu IVRS facility for those without smartphones The Aarogya Setu app is used on Android phones by 98% of the registered users, and the source code for the Android app is currently available on GitHub, a collaboration platform for software developers, where code can be developed or reviewed collaboratively. “While making the code open source, Government of India Data | How safe is Aarogya Setu compared to COVID-19 contact tracing apps of other countries? The Aarogya Setu Android app privacy policy states that, information collected during the app registration such as name, phone number, age, sex, profession, and countries visited in the last 30 days, is stored securely on a server operated and managed by the Government of India.