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July 30, 2019 03:26 pm

Called ID App Truecaller Pushes Software Fix After Covertly Signing Up Indians To Its Payments Service

Truecaller, a service that helps users screen robocalls, has rolled out an update to its app in India, its largest market, after a previous software release covertly signed up an unspecified number of users to its payments service. From a report: A number of users in India began to complain late Monday that Truecaller, which has amassed over 100 million daily users in the country, had registered them to its payments service without their consent. In a statement to TechCrunch, Truecaller acknowledged the error and said a bug in the previous software update caused the issue. The bug led the app to quietly send a text message to a bank to verify their account -- which is part of the procedure to sign up to the payments service.

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