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Kerala HC stops US-based IT firm from processing data of Covid-19 patients

However, the court permitted the state government to utilise the services of the firm Sprinklr, for processing data, subject to stringent conditions

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Health workers collect swab samples from people for COVID-19 tests, in New Delhi. PTI

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The Kerala High Court on Friday restrained a US-based IT firm from analysing or processing the data related to Covid-19 patients and directed it to retransfer to the state government, any data it has obtained.

However, the court permitted the state government to utilise the services of the firm Sprinklr, for processing data, subject to stringent conditions.

In an interim order on a plea seeking to quash of the state government's contract with Sprinklr, a division bench, comprising Justices Devan Ramachandran and T R Ravi, also directed the state government to anonymize all data of Covid- 19 patients collected by it and

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