The High Court of Kerala issued a number of directives to address data confidentiality concerns over a contract with U.S. company Sprinklr for processing data related to COVID-19 cases, LiveLaw reports. The government of Kerala must anonymize all data collected, and Sprinklr is prohibited from advertising or interacting with third-parties regarding the data or exploiting the data for commercial purposes. The court expressed reservations about the deal, Justice Devan Ramachandran writing, “The cure cannot be worse than the problem.”
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