{"id":517284,"date":"2022-08-27T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517284"},"modified":"2022-08-27T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:48:11","slug":"privacy-concerns-irctc-scraps-passenger-data-monetisation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/privacy-concerns-irctc-scraps-passenger-data-monetisation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy concerns: IRCTC scraps passenger data monetisation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation NSE 1.19 % (IRCTC) has junked its passenger data monetisation plan following backlash on privacy issues. An official statement said that IRCTC NSE 0.23 % has withdrawn the tender for appointment of consultant for suggesting business strategies using data available.<\/p>\n<p>This development took place on the day a parliamentary panel had called upon representatives of IRCTC to be briefed on the subject of citizens\u2019 data security and privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation NSE 1.19 % (IRCTC) has junked its passenger data monetisation plan following backlash on privacy issues. An official statement said that IRCTC NSE 0.23 % has withdrawn the tender for appointment of consultant for suggesting business strategies using data available. This development took place on the day a parliamentary panel had called upon representatives of IRCTC to be briefed on the subject of citizens\u2019 data security and privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}