Betrayed by an app she had never heard of

She called her source and after they hung up, TrueCaller offered the source the option to tag Chloe’s number, since the number was not in their database. Now every time Chloe makes a phone call using that phone number, her name appears to TrueCaller users, like the cab driver, as “Chloe The Inquirer Journalist.” But beyond the different standards applied to people within and outside of the European Union – a phenomenon that Privacy International has called out in other companies – the larger issue remains that people who are tagged are not protected since these privacy policies only explicitly protect TrueCaller users; little to no information is provided as to how they apply to non-users tagged by the app’s users.

Source: www.privacyinternational.org