A European digital rights organization is alleging that a telecommunications giant and a U.S.-based fraud detection company are violating privacy laws by gathering and transferring the cellphone data of half the world’s population and using it to create personalized scores of individuals’ trustworthiness.

I’ve been spyphone free for 3 years now, and am increasingly being hazed and threatened with account suspension because I don’t have a phone to verify online accounts. They seem genuinely scared that people need to be physically tracked at all times while online.