BICS (and its parent company ‘Proximus’) collects the said data and sends it to Telesign. This U.S.-based fraud detection company utilizes AI to generate trustworthiness/reputation scores for people, ranging between 0 and 300. Telesign’s website mentions harnessing intelligence from more than 5 billion unique phone numbers from 230 countries and collecting 2,200 digital identity signals to generate trustworthy reports.
NOYB has shared a diagram that explains where that data goes, claiming that Telesign shares the generated scores with Microsoft, Salesforce, TikTok, IBM, EA, GoFundMe, Citrix, Upwork, Fiverr, and possibly many other technology companies, who use them for their own, private purposes. NOYB claims that these scores are used for deciding what confirmation steps should be added when a person attempts to create an account or if they will be allowed to create an account on the platform in the first place.