Has TrueCaller changed ?
- Thread starter honest1
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Can we find people's phone number there?No one uses True Caller here
e.g. can I search for Amitabh Bachan's phone number?
Full policy is available here:
Truecaller Privacy Policies
Understand what personal information we collect, how we use your personal information and everything related to Truecaller's privacy policy here!
www.truecaller.com
They stopped uploading the complete contact list after several breaches. However, they still collect all possible metadata for each call and also link it with social media accounts like WhatsApp if you choose it. Basically instead of the contact list, they rely on the name you use when you register with them or the names others use when reporting a number.
I use it now only because I am on iOS where data is shared only for manual lookup, to mainly identify spam calls. Due to this policy, I found that non-spam call identification is usually not great, which includes my own number which I registered with a meaningless name. However, others do receive a "you may know this person" phrase with that meaningless name, implying they use metadata to link numbers together.
They sell metadata to make profit & most of the features are only available in premium version.Full policy is available here:
Truecaller Privacy Policies
Understand what personal information we collect, how we use your personal information and everything related to Truecaller's privacy policy here!
They stopped uploading the complete contact list after several breaches. However, they still collect all possible metadata for each call and also link it with social media accounts like WhatsApp if you choose it. Basically instead of the contact list, they rely on the name you use when you register with them or the names others use when reporting a number.
I use it now only because I am on iOS where data is shared only for manual lookup, to mainly identify spam calls. Due to this policy, I found that non-spam call identification is usually not great, which includes my own number which I registered with a meaningless name. However, others do receive a "you may know this person" phrase with that meaningless name, implying they use metadata to link numbers together.
Their policy clearly doesn't state if your data is secure enough & sms msgs are also tracked
What alternative do we have ?
Still using that service on my mothers number as she receives many junk calls since last 2 years.
Worst fine
nRiTeCh
Oracle
sabino
Beginner
Samsung has the built in spam detector, dunno if its from google or samsung buy it works well.
Assuming data gathered will only be from Samsung ecosystem. Then of no use.
Truecaller supports all android/apple hence maximum numbers db.
i have both Samsung and Pixel devices . Both have no 3 party call blocking /Truecaller App but only native Apps
No calls are blocked till I block them but all Junk/SPAM are shown as JUNK in dialer when received
honest1
Herald
Thanks, very well explained !Full policy is available here:
Truecaller Privacy Policies
Understand what personal information we collect, how we use your personal information and everything related to Truecaller's privacy policy here!
They stopped uploading the complete contact list after several breaches. However, they still collect all possible metadata for each call and also link it with social media accounts like WhatsApp if you choose it. Basically instead of the contact list, they rely on the name you use when you register with them or the names others use when reporting a number.
I use it now only because I am on iOS where data is shared only for manual lookup, to mainly identify spam calls. Due to this policy, I found that non-spam call identification is usually not great, which includes my own number which I registered with a meaningless name. However, others do receive a "you may know this person" phrase with that meaningless name, implying they use metadata to link numbers together.
Samsung uses Hiya and they would also have some kind of data monetizing agreement. It is worse because of the smaller user base.
ksud
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