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Poor Truecaller.    I never believed I’d use those two words together, but such is Truecaller’s plight. The 10-year-old Swedish company uses software algorithms and crowdsourced databases from over 140M of its users to "guess” the identity of anyone who calls them. But over the years, they’ve been such flagrant violators of our individual and collective privacy that I think of them as the true anti-vaxxers of digital privacy. Because vaccination in the real world, after a threshold, leads to higher “herd immunity”—those who are immune end up indirectly providing protection to those who aren’t. But with Truecaller, every user who signs up and contributes private data for its databases ends up indirectly compromising the privacy of even those who have never used Truecaller.   But today’s story by Arundhati isn’t about Truecaller’s numerous privacy violations, for which a simple DuckDuckGo search would do. Instead, it's about the company’s repeated pivots and search for