{"id":709196,"date":"2019-09-24T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/fg-begins-investigation-into-breach-of-privacy-rights-of-nigerians-by-truecaller\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:41:43","slug":"fg-begins-investigation-into-breach-of-privacy-rights-of-nigerians-by-truecaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/fg-begins-investigation-into-breach-of-privacy-rights-of-nigerians-by-truecaller\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Begins Investigation Into Breach Of Privacy Rights Of Nigerians By Truecaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_690577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-690577\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-690577\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/missed-call-warning-2017-1.jpg\" alt=\"Smartphone\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-690577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smartphone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) has begun investigation into the breach of privacy of Nigerians by Truecaller.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed on Monday by its Director-General, Kashifu Abdullahi Inuwa, it said the caller-identification service was putting \u201cmany Nigerians in unsavoury conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Inuwa, initial findings had revealed that the Truecaller Privacy Policy was not in compliance with global laws on data protection and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) in particular.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that some provisions of the Truecaller Privacy Policy were clearly excessive and invasive of the privacy of its users.<\/p>\n<p>He said the provisions of the policy can be exploited to \u2018\u2018put many Nigerians in unsavoury conditions.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Wole Soyinka Reacts FG\u2019s New Charges Against Sowore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this, we urge all Nigerians to take advantage of Article 4 of the Truecaller Privacy Policy which provides \u2013 \u201cIf any persons do not wish to have their names and phone numbers made available through the Enhanced Search or Name Search functionalities, they can exclude themselves from further queries by notifying Truecaller via its website at www.truecaller.com or as set forth in the contact details\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the public may also decide to delist themselves from the Truecaller Service completely\u2019\u2019, he said<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone The National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) has begun investigation into the breach of privacy of Nigerians by Truecaller. In a statement signed on Monday by its Director-General, Kashifu Abdullahi Inuwa, it said the caller-identification service was putting \u201cmany Nigerians in unsavoury conditions.\u201d According to Inuwa, initial findings had revealed that the Truecaller Privacy Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FG Begins Investigation Into Breach Of Privacy Rights Of Nigerians By Truecaller - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/fg-begins-investigation-into-breach-of-privacy-rights-of-nigerians-by-truecaller\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FG Begins Investigation Into Breach Of Privacy Rights Of Nigerians By Truecaller - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Smartphone The National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) has begun investigation into the breach of privacy of Nigerians by Truecaller. 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