KOCHI: The Central government has informed the Kerala high court that the state government should not share sensitive personal data with any third party, such as Sprinklr . The court is scheduled to hear the case on Friday.The submission by ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) was in the form of a preliminary statement filed through assistant solicitor general P Vijayakumar in response to the petition filed by Balu Gopalakrishnan alleging sharing of sensitive health data of Covid-19 patients and suspects with US-based Sprinklr by the state government.In the recommendations for handling sensitive personal data, MeitY said in the statement, "The sensitive personal data should not be shared with any third party service providers. The state should anonymise the personal data and such anonymised and aggregated data can be shared with any third party service providers like in this case for a due cause. Further the sensitive personal data should be purged after completion of the purposes for which it has been collected."MeitY further informed the court that the government of India with the support of NIC is capable of providing all the requirements relating to data storage, processing and application which are being offered by Sprinklr if a request is made by the state government. It is always preferable to utilize the services available in the government sector for sharing sensitive data required for analytical purposes, the statement said.The central government has also pointed out that Rule 5(7) of The Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 mandates that consent of the individual is mandatory before collecting information.It is also recommended by the Central government that the sensitive personal data should be in control of the State, according to MeitY’s statement to the court.