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None of my phone numbers are public. I don't know about where you live, but where I live it's perfectly possible to keep your phone number private. The only one
by Tor3 3y ago
None of my phone numbers are public. I don't know about where you live, but where I live it's perfectly possible to keep your phone number private. The only ones who are able to look up my phone number are public services like 911 equivalents and a few others.
- anonu 3y agoIts public in the sense that it's not a secret. You give out your phone number to friends and family. They may download apps that request them to share all contacts. You may give your number to businesses to contact you, or to enable 2FA. The "privacy" of your phone number depends on many 100s of individual contacts and businesses to maintain some sort of privacy as well, which as we know is near impossible. Your number is out there no matter how careful you are with it. I don't think it really matters which country you live in at this point.
- Tor3 3y agoTechnically that could be, but in practice there's a huge difference. In addition to several private phones I also have a work phone, and that number isn't set private. On that one I receive scam calls, ads, phishing, questionnaires every single day. My auto-blocking app stops a lot of it fortunately. On my own phones I never receive a single one of these. Not one.
- t0bia_s 3y agoTechnically yes. Practically, thanks to FB scraping, we have public phone numbers for around 20% of Czech citizens. Check your country, I think scraping and leaks was and will be everywhere.