Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union and Maharashtra governments, among others, over a public interest litigation (PIL) claiming that the Truecaller mobile application "shared" user data breaching legal norms of the country. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni was hearing a PIL filed by one Shashank Posture.
"The Truecaller app collects data of all users. It shares such data with some of its partners without the consent of users, and dumps the liability on the user," the petitioner told the court. "This is a manipulative set up because the user has no choice. The app also registers users for a Unified Payments Interface service without their consent, or without due process," Posture alleged.
When the court asked who were these partners benefitting from Truecaller, Posture named "Google India, Bharati Airtel, ICICI Bank", and claimed that several loan providing companies were also the beneficiaries of such data leaks by the app.
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