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Why Truecaller enrolled users for its payments service without permission

Why Truecaller enrolled users for its payments service without permission
Written by Shubham Sharma
Jul 30, 2019, 07:19 pm 2 min read
Why Truecaller enrolled users for its payments service without permission

Leading Caller ID company Truecaller is again in the middle of a crisis, this time due to a bug that started enrolling users automatically for its payments service. A number of people witnessed the issue and took to Twitter to report the problem to the Swedish company, and expressed fears over the security of their finances. Here's more on the matter.

Issue
Truecaller app started signing up users for Truecaller Pay

Going by the complaints, on Tuesday, the latest version of Truecaller's Android app started signing up users for Truecaller Pay - the UPI-based payments service the company introduced in 2017. The app initiated the UPI-registration process for the service (similar to Google Pay) and sent out messages to verify bank accounts associated with mobile numbers, without any permissions whatsoever.

Twitter Post
Several users reported the matter on Twitter

Many reviews on playstore alleging the same behavior by @Truecaller app as alleged in the thread above. pic.twitter.com/bFqRtDdLkK

— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) July 30, 2019
Panic
This raised immediate alarms among Truecaller users

Evidently, seeing UPI registration messages like "Your registration for UPI app has started. If it was not you, report now to your bank" wasn't well received by Truecaller users. Some claimed that automatic registration was a clear breach of privacy, while others blamed the company for scamming users in a bid to get its hands on their UPI details.

Response
However, Truecaller blamed the issue on a bug

As the complaints started flooding, Truecaller issued a statement blaming the issue on a bug that affected the payments feature and "automatically triggered a registration." "This was a bug and we have discontinued this version (v10.41.6) of the app so no other users will be affected," the company said, noting that "we're sorry about this version not passing our quality standards."

Fix
New, fixed version available on Google Play Store

The company said the issue affected only a "small fraction of Truecaller's Android users" and a new version with the fix has been published on Google Play Store. So, if you were affected by the bug, we recommend updating Truecaller to the latest version (v10.40.7). Notably, Truecaller also said, "Any users who have been registered for UPI services will automatically be deregistered."

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Editor with over five years of experience in covering all things science, consumer tech, space tech, AI, infosec, and business. A commerce graduate from University of Lucknow. I have been handling Tech beat at NewsBytes since 2018.
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