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A state in southern India has come up with a controversial solution to make sure that people quarantined at home to curb the spread of the coronavirus stay at home: it wants them to send a selfie to the government every waking hour.

According to the Minister of Medical Education of the state of Karnataka, quarantined people will be required to download an app on their phones, through which they must take and send a selfie every hour to government officials from 7 am to 10 pm. The app will also send the person’s GPS coordinates, so that officials can verify the person’s location.

If a quarantined person doesn’t send a selfie, they might transferred be to one of the Indian government’s quarantine centers, which have become notorious for unsanitary conditions.

“Every selfie sent by Home Quarantine [sic] person is seen by Government Photo Verification team,” a press release from the ministry said. “So if wrong photos are sent then also defaulter will be shifted to Mass Quarantine.”

K. Sudhakar, Karnataka’s Minister of Medical Education, did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. Three other officials at the Karnataka Health Department did not respond to requests for comment.

On Twitter, Indians slammed the order, saying that it their violated privacy.

Earlier this month, the Indian state of Maharashtra started stamping the hands of people flying into the country with indelible ink stating the date until which they couldn’t leave their houses.

As of Monday, India had just over a thousand reported coronavirus cases and 29 deaths. Last week, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi put the country’s 1.3 billion people under lockdown, and cancelled all flights, trains, and buses, to slow the spread of the lockdown.

The move, which was announced hours before the lockdown came into effect, sparked panic buying of food and other essentials across the country, and left millions of migrant laborers stranded at state borders, rendering them homeless and jobless.