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NOYB: TeleSign profiles half of the world's phone users

https://noyb.eu/en/telesign-profiles-half-worlds-phone-users
#TeleSign
#BICS
#telecomms
#Belgium
#GDPR

#noyb filed a new complaint against the US-company #Telesign: Telesign profiles half of the world's mobile phone users, based on data secretly received from interconnection service #BICS and calculates a "reputation score".
Read the full story here: https://noyb.eu/en/telesign-profiles-half-worlds-phone-users

So #BICS is providing detailed phone customer data to #Telesign who process that data in the #us and sell that data to #microsoft , #tiktok , #salesforce .
Did they have permission to do so? I'd be surprised if that was the case...

"Today, @noybeu filed a complaint against TeleSign, a US company which secretly profiled millions of phone users."

https://noyb.eu/en/telesign-profiles-half-worlds-phone-users

#privacy #surveillance #gdpr #bdpa