Stalker terrorises woman, she reports it, nothing happens, stalker kills her. Queue hand wringing. It’s played out a lot of times, in a lot of places, I don’t know why everyone here is so cynical.

Even in pretty dysfunctional countries, or pro-business ones like the US, where nothing like the GDPR exists, telcos management have a strong interest in not letting just any rank and file employee spy on subscribers.