Your Telco Knows More About You Than Your Mother

Lance Ng
Lance Ng
Nov 4 · 4 min read

Telcos know more about you than Facebook or Google. We should be much more worried about how they have been using or selling that information.

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There is a company call Cignifi in the US that helps banks and credit rating agencies calculate credit scores for consumers using mobile phone usage data. This service is particularly useful in places like Brazil, where they work with

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