A parliamentary panel has called upon representatives of Indian Railway Catering and
NSE 1.19 % (IRCTC) to be briefed on the subject of citizens’ data security and privacy. This comes at a time when
NSE 0.23 % is facing flak for floating an expression of interest (EOI) to rope in a consultant to explore avenues for passenger data
monetisation. The criticism was amplified since the country does not have a data protection framework in place. An official aware of the idea behind calling IRCTC confirmed to ET that the panel’s focus will be on these reported plans to monetise passenger data.
According to a notice issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat, IRCTC officials are to brief the Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology later this week on Friday, August 26. This committee is chaired by Shashi Tharoor, the Indian National Congress (INC) party’s Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram. Among other prominent politicians in this committee are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Tejasvi Surya, and Locket Chatterjee. All India Tr ..