Truecaller has said any Nigerian can remove their phone number from its caller-identification service, following a Lagos High Court ruling that dismissed a privacy case brought by non-users of the platform.
The company told TechCabal its unlisting tool allows people who do not use Truecaller to request removal of their number and associated caller identity from its active searchable database.
“The Lagos State High Court dismissed this suit and refused all the reliefs sought,” a Truecaller spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. “We welcome the court’s recognition that caller identification and spam detection serve an important public-safety purpose in protecting Nigerians from scams, fraud and harassment.”
The response follows TechCabal’s earlier report, which examined the legal dispute over how Truecaller processes the phone numbers and names of people who have not signed up for its service.
Originally published by TechCabal.