Is Truecaller Stealing Our Data | About TrueCaller Earning |
True Caller is a Company Which Shows You the Correct name of the Caller on Your Mobile Device. How True Caller App Fetches the Contact,Chats,Messages even Call recording from your device ? and Store it in their particular Server in Sorted Manner ? how it happens ? .We will Try to Cover this Answers in Below Infomation.
How Actually Truecaller works ?
You probably don’t Know how they take all the Contacts and how they show the name of the caller on Your device.lets Talk about it in detail that How truecaller works ? .When you install the App the app creates the copy of your contact number and sends it to Database. Means all your contact numbers with names has been submitted to Truecaller and whenever some other guy search the number it shows the exact name because you have recently submitted all your contacts to truecaller and vice versa. All people starts downloading the app to search other contacts numbers and in written the company fetches the Contact number with names from your device.This is how actually truecaller works.
What type of Data True Caller is Stealing from us ?
According to the Privacy policy of Truecaller they have mentioned this much number of Information are fetched by Trucaller Application from Your Device.
1) geo-location.
2) Your IP address.
3) Device ID.
4) unique identifier.
5) device manufacturer and type.
6) device and hardware settings.
7) SIM card usage.
8) applications installed on your device.
9) ID for advertising.
10) ad data.
11) operating system.
12) web browser.
13) operator.
14) IMSI.
15) connection information.
16) screen resolution.
17) usage statistics.
18) default communication applications.
19) access to device address book.
20) device log and event information.
21) logs, keywords.
22) meta data of incoming and outgoing calls and messages.
This much Information is Enough to Sell the Data to Advertising Company, or other Brands.This is Not the End – This is the Real Information which I am Sharing with you.
What type of Permissions Truecaller takes from us ?
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1) Camera.
1) Camera.
2) Microphone .
3) Gallery.
4) Notes.
5) Number of Apps.
1 ) Camera : They can operate Your Camera by the relaxing on the system because you have already given the permissions to accesses it while installing the app.
2) Microphone : They can Record your Calls while You are on Phone Calls.
3) Gallery : They can take all photos from gallery in one click.Here is the thing that Privacy Matters.
4) Notes : what you have written in notes they can read it.It can be password or other Bank details.
5) Number of apps : How many number of apps you have installed and what are they ? because they will try to show you ads by using that installed apps.
How do Truecaller Earns Money ?
1 ) Advertisement : They Show they Popup ads on their website and Mobile Application.
2) Data Sharing : data breach cost more then you think yeah it’s True . Big Brands Company can Invest Money on Advertising by buying customers data so that they can easily send or request them to buy they Products.
3)Third -Party selling : They Can sell Data to any one whom it Required according to research they can share the Celebrity Numbers by asking huge money from Third – party.
What should I do ?
Chintan Patel
