Telenor faces lawsuit over claims it exposed Myanmar customers to junta repression

BANGKOK: A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Telenor on Tuesday on behalf of over 1,200 people whose phone data it says the Norwegian telecom’s Myanmar subsidiary shared with the country’s military junta following a 2021 coup.

Telenor, which has since exited Myanmar, said it believed there was nothing in the lawsuit that the company had not already addressed and “in our view it is unlikely that such a claim will succeed”.