{"id":517312,"date":"2022-08-27T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517312"},"modified":"2022-08-27T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T06:13:46","slug":"irctc-withdraws-tender-on-data-monetisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irctc-withdraws-tender-on-data-monetisation\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCTC withdraws tender on data monetisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways\u2019 catering and ticketing arm Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has withdrawn a controversial tender \u2014 which proposed hiring a consultant to monetise a bulk of its passengers\u2019 data \u2014 since the government has withdrawn the data protection Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The tender had alarmed activists who said it could lead to a violation of privacy of people who have used IRCTC\u2019s services since it sought to analyse data points like their names, contact numbers, addresses and even \u201clogin\/password\u201d credentials. In a notification to stock exchanges on Friday, IRCTC said it was withdrawing the tender since the Centre has withdrawn the \u201cPersonal Data Protection Bill, 2018\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways\u2019 catering and ticketing arm Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has withdrawn a controversial tender \u2014 which proposed hiring a consultant to monetise a bulk of its passengers\u2019 data \u2014 since the government has withdrawn the data protection Bill. The tender had alarmed activists who said it could lead to a violation of privacy of people who have used IRCTC\u2019s services since it sought to analyse data points like their names, contact numbers, addresses and even \u201clogin\/password\u201d credentials. In a notification to stock exchanges on Friday, IRCTC said it was withdrawing the tender since the Centre has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517312","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}