Yes, this does seem like a bit of an edge case and I think it's probably served to highlight that people who need to protect their privacy need to take extra st

Yes, this does seem like a bit of an edge case and I think it's probably served to highlight that people who need to protect their privacy need to take extra steps to preserve their anonymity... in this case telling sources to obfuscate her identity in their phones. The reality is that phone databases like this are an invaluable tool in the war on robo & spam callers. I think that there should be an option in these databases to be able to tag numbers as spammers without the need to have their identity preserved. I don't use TrueCaller (I'm a YouMail user) but see numbers flagged all the time as "Real estate scam" or "Probably a Canadian Pharmacy" come up without revealing a name or affiliated company.