Panel to examine if privacy of personal, sensitive data of COVID-19 patients protected

Amid opposition charges, the Kerala government has constituted a two-member committee to examine whether the privacy of personal and sensitive data of COVID-19 patients from the state has been protected under an agreement entered by it with a US-based IT firm.

The panel headed by former Special IT Secretary M Madhavan Nambiar and former health secretary Rajeev Sadanandan, will also ascertain whether adequate procedures were followed while finalising the arrangements with the private company, Sprinklr.

The Opposition Congress has been levelling charges that the collection of data by the U.S firm violated the fundamental rights of the patients
The government informed the court that the agreement with Sprinklr has safeguards for data protection "as per standard practices of software as a service model."