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’ trustworthiness. The European Center for Digital Rights — also called noyb, from “none

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