Truecaller Says Indian User Data Is Now Locally Hosted

Aiming to provide secure services to the users, Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Wednesday said all its Indian user data is now hosted in the country.

India has over 60 per cent of Truecaller's global user base of more than 100 million daily active users.

"This is one of the many steps we are taking to ensure better services. This also safeguards users' privacy and data while being compliant with laws of the geographies we operate in," Nami Zarringhalam, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Truecaller, said in a statement.

In line with its business strategies, Truecaller has also doubled the speed in search results for "Caller ID" and "Spam detection" features within the app, he said.

With its offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Mumbai, more than half of the company's employees are from India.

Last month, Truecaller in its Insight Special Report said Brazil surpassed India to become the most spammed country in the world in 2018.

More than six percent of overall calls received by Indian users in 2018 were spam calls. However, the average number of spam calls received in India dropped to 22.3 calls per user/month - 1.5 percent less than last year, its findings showed.

On an average, a Truecaller user in Brazil received 37.5 spam calls per month - an 81 percent increase of spam calls in a year, said Truecaller.