It had repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in engaging the U.S.-based data analytics firm. The government had said it had contracted Sprinklr as an emergency measure to crunch the health data of citizens to understand how the pandemic would behave in Kerala. It insisted that agencies and departments should collect sensitive personal data of citizens only with their legally recorded informed consent. SDC factorAuthorities should store the sensitive data of citizens in the State Data Centre (SDC) to the “extend possible”. The IT rules should inform collection, storage and analysis of sensitive data.

Source: The Hindu May 30, 2020 16:04 UTC