Amidst all the privacy uproar over the monetisation of railway passenger data, the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Friday informed a Parliamentary committee that it no longer plans to hire a consultant for data tracking of passengers. The e-tender document that surfaced online earlier this month revealed Indian Railways plan to hire a consultant who would review the large data dump of railway passengers and help plan ways to use these data for conducting businesses with various private and government sectors.
