TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
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Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#2Remember when global surveillance used to be a meme among conspiracy theorists ?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
What can we say about a corporation doing a trust score for half of the connected population in the world ? I wonder about their ego, or what went wrong in their management.
Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#3I do not agree with these practices.
However, I do think there is room for protocols that verify phone numbers in a way. The spam and fraudulent calls that people receive and are hard to distinguish from “good” calls is a problem that deserves more attention.
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#4Remember when global surveillance used to be a meme among conspiracy theorists ? Pepperidge Farm remembers What can we say about a corporation doing a trust score for half of the connected population in the world ? I wonder about their ego, or what went wrong in their management.
Would this be a breach of GDPR for us EU residents?
I'm getting seriously disillusioned with all this surveillance stuff. At first I thought, you know, these were isolated incidents falling through the cracks, but in truth it's become pervasive and global. The scariest aspect is how individual actors have the ability these days to gather, interpret and isolate individuals from massive datasets, anonymising the data seems pie in the sky.
I don't see much stopping it either, in society it seems to be the extremes, some wrongly think GDPR applies to everything and others are so sophisticated they can bypass it completely. Have we gotten too advanced, whereby only experts understand the impacts of our actions? Sorry I'm getting all philosophical.
Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#5Remember when global surveillance used to be a meme among conspiracy theorists ? Pepperidge Farm remembers What can we say about a corporation doing a trust score for half of the connected population in the world ? I wonder about their ego, or what went wrong in their management.
Would this be a breach of GDPR for us EU residents? I'm getting seriously disillusioned with all this surveillance stuff. At first I thought, you know, these were isolated incidents falling through the cracks, but in truth it's become pervasive and global. The scariest aspect is how individual actors have the ability these days to gather, interpret and isolate individuals from massive datasets, anonymising the data s…
It definitely would, but GDPR is not being enforced anywhere near enough to matter. Facebook and Google are still alive and you bet their tracking and profiles are much more accurate than these clowns.
Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would this be a breach of GDPR for us EU residents? I'm getting seriously disillusioned with all this surveillance stuff. At first I thought, you know, these were isolated incidents falling through the cracks, but in truth it's become pervasive and global. The scariest aspect is how individual actors have the ability these days to gather, interpret and isolate individuals from massive datasets, anonymising the data s…
It definitely would, but GDPR is not being enforced anywhere near enough to matter. Facebook and Google are still alive and you bet their tracking and profiles are much more accurate than these clowns.
A sad thought.
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Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#8Remember when global surveillance used to be a meme among conspiracy theorists ? Pepperidge Farm remembers What can we say about a corporation doing a trust score for half of the connected population in the world ? I wonder about their ego, or what went wrong in their management.
Would this be a breach of GDPR for us EU residents? I'm getting seriously disillusioned with all this surveillance stuff. At first I thought, you know, these were isolated incidents falling through the cracks, but in truth it's become pervasive and global. The scariest aspect is how individual actors have the ability these days to gather, interpret and isolate individuals from massive datasets, anonymising the data s…
It is, and this article announced Noyb filed a complaint against BICS, TeleSign and Proximus with the Belgian DPA to request actions be taken (investigation, fines, removal of data, …).
A translated complaint is available at https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2023-06/DRAT%20TELESIGN%...
Re: TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
#9Side note/doubt.
By asking to have your data through a GDPR request you are effectively giving to the receiver of the request:
1) your full name
2) your phone number
3) your e-mail
i.e. basically a confirmation that both the phone number and e-mail are good/active/attended and that they are yours (and that you "exist"), while the data they may already have likely is only the telephone number and the patterns of its usage.
I have no idea how it could be possible to make a valid request without providing this kind of info (i.e. providing only the phone number, which they already have).
Maybe a sort of (public/certified) authorization service?
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#10I know there are several services that helps you with removing your data from data brokers continuously, but only limits to residents in Countries which has GDPR alike laws.
I feel defenseless against these sophisticated international corporation mass surveillances. Sending GDPR to each of them when you have learned their existence is like whac-a-mole.