Article 2BF1V Mobile recharging station operators in India sell tens of thousands of women's phone numbers to stalkers

Mobile recharging station operators in India sell tens of thousands of women's phone numbers to stalkers

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Cory Doctorow
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Tens of thousands of women in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have complained to police about harassing phone calls from creepy men who bought their phone numbers from the operators of mobile phone recharging stations; they say the operators sneakily captured their phone numbers and sold them off to the stalkers. (more")

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