IRCTC scraps tender for hiring consultant to monetise passenger data amid privacy concerns

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.