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尼日利亚拉各斯高等法院 (Lagos High Court) 划定了一条界限，这可能会使数字平台如何利用他人联系方式开发产品变得复杂：个人分享通讯录的许可，并不自动赋予公司处理通讯录中所有人个人数据的许可。
据科技媒体TechCabal获得的一项2026年9月14日的裁决显示，法院裁定，Truecaller不得依赖用户的同意来处理其通讯录中那些从未安装或使用过该应用的联系人的电话号码。
这场争议的核心，是日常数字生活中一项人们鲜少关注的功能。当你下载一款来电识别应用（caller-identification app），并授予其访问联系人信息的权限时，你自然会期望它能告诉你来电者是谁。然而，那些保存在你通讯录中的人，可能从未下载过这款应用，也未曾接受过其隐私条款，甚至从未听说过这家公司。尽管如此，他们的姓名、电话号码和标签信息，却仍可能被添加到可供搜索的数据库中。
授权人与数据被泄露者之间的这种脱节，是数据隐私律师协会注册受托人 (Incorporated Trustees of the Data Privacy Lawyers Association) 代表未使用 Truecaller 的成员提起的案件的核心所在。申请人辩称，该公司未经同意收集、存储和披露了他们的电话号码，此举侵犯了他们的宪法隐私权，并违反了2023年《尼日利亚数据保护法》(Nigeria Data Protection Act, NDPA) 的规定。
“根据《尼日利亚数据保护法》（Nigeria Data Protection Act），同意是指一种自愿、知情、具体且明确的表示或协议，允许他人处理个人数据，”尼日利亚律师协会（Nigerian Bar Association）数据保护委员会主席、同时也是该诉
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A Lagos High Court has drawn a line that could complicate how digital platforms build products from other people’s contacts: one person’s permission to share a phonebook does not automatically give a company permission to process the personal data of everyone in it.
In a September 14, 2026, ruling seen by TechCabal, the court said Truecaller could not rely on a user’s consent to process the phone numbers of people in their contacts who had never used the app.
But it also denied damages to the people whose data was processed, creating a striking gap in Nigeria’s emerging privacy regime: a company can lack a lawful basis to process someone’s data, while that person may still receive no compensation without proving concrete harm.
The ruling is therefore both a warning to digital platforms and a test of how far Nigerian privacy laws can go in protecting people who never agreed to be part of a digital service. For companies that rely on contact lists, access to address books or crowdsourced identity databases, the decision raises questions about how they obtain lawful consent. For individuals, it raises another question: what remedy exists when their personal information is used without their knowledge, but the harm is dif
The dispute centres on a feature of everyday digital life that most people rarely think about. You download a caller-identification app, grant it access to your contacts, and expect it to tell you who is calling. But the people saved in your phonebook may never have downloaded the app, accepted its privacy terms, or even heard of the company. Their names, numbers, and labels can nevertheless be added to a searchable database.
That disconnect between the person who gives permission and the person whose data is exposed was at the heart of the case brought by the Incorporated Trustees of the Data Privacy Lawyers Association on behalf of members who did not use Truecaller. The applicants argued that the company harvested, stored, and disclosed their phone numbers without consent, violating their constitutional right to privacy and the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) of 2023.
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来源：TechCabal Africa (https://techcabal.com/)
原文链接：https://techcabal.com/2026/09/23/nigerian-court-says-truecallers-consent-doesnt-cover-contacts/
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发表于 2026-9-13 22:41:13