{"id":517364,"date":"2022-08-27T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517364"},"modified":"2022-08-27T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:08:09","slug":"irctc-withdraws-tender-for-applications-to-monetise-customer-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irctc-withdraws-tender-for-applications-to-monetise-customer-data\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCTC withdraws tender for applications to monetise customer data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing criticism, and advocacy groups asserting compromise of citizens\u2019 privacy, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) withdrew the tender floated by it to monetise its customer data.<\/p>\n<p>The IRCTC informed that because the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018, the corporation also pulled back the tender that it had floated to appoint a consultant to help it monetise customers\u2019 data.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Railways\u2019 ticketing arm floated an e-tender on July 29, calling for consultants to suggest ideas that could help with the monetisation of customers data\u2014including their name,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing criticism, and advocacy groups asserting compromise of citizens\u2019 privacy, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) withdrew the tender floated by it to monetise its customer data. The IRCTC informed that because the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018, the corporation also pulled back the tender that it had floated to appoint a consultant to help it monetise customers\u2019 data. The Indian Railways\u2019 ticketing arm floated an e-tender on July 29, calling for consultants to suggest ideas that could help with the monetisation of customers data\u2014including their name,<\/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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517364","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=517364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}