The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Friday informed a parliamentary standing committee that it will abort the tender issued for hiring a consultant to monetise its passenger and freight customer data.
Amid widespread concerns over privacy, the Railways’ catering and ticketing arm apprised the standing committee on information technology headed by Congress leader and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor that the tender was no longer being pursued.
This comes after the panel had summoned officials of the Indian Railways along with top executives of social media giant Twitter on the issue of citizens’ data security and privacy.
