Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- A national identity card can be obtained in 17 minutes. A mobile subscriber's latest location can arrive in 16 minutes. Three months of call records can be delivered within a few hours.

Advertisement In Bangladesh, sensitive personal information that is supposed to be protected is being openly bought and sold online.

An investigation by Dismislab found an expanding market where sellers advertise personal data on Facebook, process orders through websites and communicate with buyers through Telegram and WhatsApp. Payments are made through mobile financial services including bKash and Nagad.

The information on offer includes national identity cards (NID), call detail records (CDR), recent mobile locations, SMS lists...