4 ms·
Its 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 cont
by anonu 3y ago
Its 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.