# Professor Vasant Dhar weighs in on the Indian government's plan to monetize the Indian Railways' customer data

1 Faculty News July 18, 2018 ![Huffington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/huffpost192x144.jpg?itok=sF2Y0c9v)>

Excerpt from [The Huffington Post](https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/07/18/the-indian-railways-is-sitting-on-a-giant-trove-of-your-travel-data-the-modi-govt-wants-to-sell-it-and-experts-are-worried-dek_a_23484279/) -- "Sharing IRCTC data as part of a disinvestment deal, he said, would mean that data given to the railways as a custodian would be passed on to unknown third parties. 'Companies should monetise data,' [Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) said. 'You should expect something very different from the government.'"

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