<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi VIjayan on Friday said the interim order of the High Court on the COVID-19 data collection controversy is a setback to the opposition Congress which had raised allegations against the Left government.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-with-60-new-cases-in-andhra-pradesh-indias-tally-climbs-to-23221-827545.html">Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p>The Opposition Congress has been levelling charges that the collection of data by the U.S firm violated the fundamental rights of the COVID-19 patients and moved the court on Tuesday seeking quashing of its contract with US- based firm.</p>.<p>The court Friday permitted the state government to utilise the services of the firm Sprinklr, for processing data, subject to stringent conditions.</p>.<p>However, itrestrained the US-based IT firm from analysing or processing the data related to COVID-19 patients and directed it to re-transfer to the state government, any data it has obtained.</p>.<p>Vijayan said the court had not cancelled or stayed the agreementas sought by the Opposition.</p>.<p>"The main petition was to cancel the agreement or to stay it. However, it didn't happen and asked us to go ahead.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-state-wise-india-update-total-number-of-confirmed-cases-deaths-on-april-24-829181.html">Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths</a></strong></p>.<p>With regard to the security of the data, the state government had taken necessary steps.There is no dilution in that matter," VIjayan said.</p>.<p>He said that the court order proves that the state government's stand was right in the matter and make sure about the security of the data collected.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, who is a party to the case,told media that the order agrees with the Congress party's concern over security of the data.</p>.<p>Amid opposition charges, the Kerala government on Wednesday 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.</p>.<p>The state government has said that it had initiated steps to set up a Data Analytics platform to integrate data from various sources available in the government to meet the "exigency of a massive and unprecedented surge of epidemic".</p>.<p>During the hearing, the court hailed the state government's fight against COVID-19, but said it was concerned about data confidentiality.</p>.<p>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."</p>
<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi VIjayan on Friday said the interim order of the High Court on the COVID-19 data collection controversy is a setback to the opposition Congress which had raised allegations against the Left government.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-live-updates-with-60-new-cases-in-andhra-pradesh-indias-tally-climbs-to-23221-827545.html">Follow latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p>The Opposition Congress has been levelling charges that the collection of data by the U.S firm violated the fundamental rights of the COVID-19 patients and moved the court on Tuesday seeking quashing of its contract with US- based firm.</p>.<p>The court Friday permitted the state government to utilise the services of the firm Sprinklr, for processing data, subject to stringent conditions.</p>.<p>However, itrestrained the US-based IT firm from analysing or processing the data related to COVID-19 patients and directed it to re-transfer to the state government, any data it has obtained.</p>.<p>Vijayan said the court had not cancelled or stayed the agreementas sought by the Opposition.</p>.<p>"The main petition was to cancel the agreement or to stay it. However, it didn't happen and asked us to go ahead.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-state-wise-india-update-total-number-of-confirmed-cases-deaths-on-april-24-829181.html">Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths</a></strong></p>.<p>With regard to the security of the data, the state government had taken necessary steps.There is no dilution in that matter," VIjayan said.</p>.<p>He said that the court order proves that the state government's stand was right in the matter and make sure about the security of the data collected.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, who is a party to the case,told media that the order agrees with the Congress party's concern over security of the data.</p>.<p>Amid opposition charges, the Kerala government on Wednesday 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.</p>.<p>The state government has said that it had initiated steps to set up a Data Analytics platform to integrate data from various sources available in the government to meet the "exigency of a massive and unprecedented surge of epidemic".</p>.<p>During the hearing, the court hailed the state government's fight against COVID-19, but said it was concerned about data confidentiality.</p>.<p>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."</p>