TrueCaller is a smartphone application that has features of
caller-identification, call-blocking, flash-messaging, Call Recording, Chat
& Voice by using the internet. It requires users to provide a
standard cellular mobile number for registering with the service.
The data is crowd-sourced from the millions of users who have downloaded the TrueCaller app on their smart phones. As part of the end user agreement, the TrueCaller app asks the user to allow access to the user's address book/contacts on the smart phone. This data is then uploaded by the app to the company's servers.
Pros
1.
Allows you to find mobile phone
location of the number in phone number search.
2.
'Who viewed my profile'
functionality is also provided by TrueCaller application. You can keep a
track on who is viewing your number.
3.
You can find caller from phone
number. Similar to reverse phone lookup
4.
It allows you to block such spam
numbers and report them to TrueCaller database to mark it as spam so that others
may also not suffer from this number
Cons
1. Caller ID does not work in all areas
2. Truecaller requires Internet connection for it to work
3. No guarantee of information security
4. It infringes on privacy issues.
privacy matters alot
ReplyDeleteIt takes away my privacy
ReplyDeletePrivacy matters
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