I share your frustration. However, in my case, that kind of information is not on any publicly accessible database. Most friends, family and colleagues wouldn’t

I share your frustration. However, in my case, that kind of information is not on any publicly accessible database. Most friends, family and colleagues wouldn’t even know my address – some might know how to get to me as (house with a yellow door in the middle of the second street to the left, after the church …). Still, it annoys me that most people probably have my personal email address, phone number and real name tied together as a contact and provide this information to at least one online platform. Back when I used to use Google and Android, I would try to preserve my contacts’ privacy by storing their names using some mixture of first name, nicknames, initial for surname and context, e.g., “Alan F”, “Fid”¹, “Alan (football)“, “John (work)“. I’d also keep their number and email address as separate contacts — though that might only have worked in the early to mid 2000s. At some point, Google started getting too clever at determining which contacts could be “merged”. ¹ short for Fidelma