highlights
Truecaller identifies callers based on your data.
The app has valuable data of millions of users like you and us.
Truecaller can sell your data at any time.
New Delhi. If you use Truecaller, then there is bad news for you. Actually Truecaller is a caller ID and spam blocking service, whose most important task is to tell Caller ID. Means if a call comes on your number, then this app tells you the name of the owner of that number, who is calling you. Now you must be thinking that how does Truecaller know which number belongs to whom? Actually, behind this is valuable data of millions of users like you and us and this is the biggest danger for us.
With the help of this data, the app tells you the name of the caller. Let us know that the data available with the app can be dangerous for all of you. Today we are going to tell you how using Truecaller can be fatal for you? And should it be used?
App makes contact public
Truecaller makes all your contacts public, so everyone can see your contacts. Now you will say what is the danger in this? So let’s make you feel the danger. Suppose the numbers of your family members (especially women) are also saved in your contact list, which has been made public by Truecaller. In such a situation, what will happen if this number is read in the wrong hands?
access to all information
Truecaller openly violates your privacy because you have given its permission. If you are thinking that it only accesses the contacts, then you are living in a big misconception, because actually you do not know what kind of information Truecaller is accessing from your phone. Truecaller accesses your name, mobile number, contact, email address, IP address and other information.
can sell your data
It is clearly written in the privacy policy of Truecaller that it can share the data of its users with third party companies and other countries. Meaning your data can be sold to any other company or country and you cannot even oppose it.
What is Truecaller?
Before you tell how it is harmful for you, before that know that Truecaller is a Caller Identification and Spam Blocking service. It has been developed by the Swedish company True Software Sandinavia AB. It is available for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows (Phone) operating systems.
The basic function of Truecaller is caller identification. When you get a call from an unknown number, Truecaller tells you who the number belongs to. Also, if you mark a number as spam, the app blocks incoming calls from that number.
