US company using cell data to rank ‘reliability’ of billions of phone users, lawsuit alleges
US company using cell data to rank ‘reliability’ of billions of phone users, lawsuit alleges
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therecord.media US company using cell data to rank ‘reliability’ of billions of phone users, lawsuit alleges
A European digital rights organization is alleging that a telecommunications giant and a U.S.-based fraud detection company are violating privacy laws by gathering and transferring the cellphone data of half the world’s population and using it to create personalized scores of individuals’ trustworth...
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I've been spyphone free for 3 years now, and am increasingly being hazed and threatened with account suspension because I don't have a phone to verify online accounts. They seem genuinely scared that people need to be physically tracked at all times while online.