USA's TeleSign 'breached GDPR' say campaigners

Company has allegedly gathered data on more than half of global mobile phone users

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USA's TeleSign 'breached GDPR' say campaigners

US-based fraud prevention company TeleSign is facing allegations of mass unlawful data gathering and processing.

Last week the Austrian privacy advocacy group NOYB, led by lawyer Max Schrems, filed a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority. In it the group alleged that TeleSign, a subsidiary o...

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