{"id":517634,"date":"2022-08-29T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517634"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:22:28","slug":"irctc-scraps-tender-for-hiring-consultant-to-monetise-passenger-data-amid-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irctc-scraps-tender-for-hiring-consultant-to-monetise-passenger-data-amid-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCTC scraps tender for hiring consultant to monetise passenger data amid privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517634","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=517634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}