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"Is there any legal way to obtain your own data from these companies?" Of course there is: sign up and use their API. For many years I had the "Ekata Reverse
by rsync 3y ago
"Is there any legal way to obtain your own data from these companies?"
Of course there is: sign up and use their API.
For many years I had the "Ekata Reverse Phone" API enabled in my Twilio account which allowed me, for 8 cents or something, to query a phone number and see subscriber history, "related subscribers", address history, etc.
Kind of a neat party trick.
It also allowed me to verify and re-verify that the fictional nyms my SIM cards and phone numbers belong to have almost zero history or identification ...
- foo-bar-bat 3y agoThanks for posting this here. Does does like neat party trick. I got randomly assigned a "troubled" phone number once. It was a PITA. It should probably be illegal for phone companies to recycle numbers from old users with certain types of legal or financial problems, to innocent random new users who are literally paying for the privilege of inheriting a hot mess.