It's trending on Twitter. On the social network of the “little blue bird”, the debate has started on the use of the Truecaller application, which gained popularity among users as a free application that “helps people in the blocking of so-called spam”, this type of communication that is annoying because without any kind of filter they try to talk to you at any time of the day in order to offer you products, services, conduct surveys and/or even involve you in a scam network.
In virtual stores we can find several applications that offer us their services, some paid and others free, in order to put an end to these annoying calls. What often happens is that we skip the step of reading the terms and conditions, exposing our information.
¿QUÉ PASA CON TRUECALLER?
According to an analysis by Arturo Goga, a technology specialist, this application that is free must have some kind of resource on which you can make monetary profits, since as any company, needs to keep its economy active.
He argues that the business of the App would be to offer the phone numbers of its users without any kind of discretion. In this way, we are vulnerable to call centers or companies that are looking for this type of database to win buyers or subscribers.
Some people who have reported to the application on social networks indicate that after downloading Truecaller they received a large number of calls, so that theory of delivery of contacts could be true.
Goga specifies that the leak of numbers would not only affect registered users, but also their contact book for the simple reason that when we register we approve that they have access to our number, name and phone numbers of the people we have on our devices in order to identify them when they call us.
HOW TO DELETE YOUR TRUECALLER NUMBER?
If spam calls have increased after downloading Truecaller, your contact may have been exposed. In order to delete it from their database you have to follow a few steps through their website. Below, we share the instructions:
STEP 1: Enter Truecaller. You will see on the screen a directory where you must enter your number to find out if it is in the database.
STEP 2: If this is your case, you have to continue with the process by going to “Unlist”. Click here to be directed automatically.
STEP 3: Put your number with your city code in the empty field that appears on your screen.
STEP 4: check the box “I'm not a robot” and finally on the “Unlist” button.
STEP 5: How long does it take to delete my number? According to the information they share on their official website, Truecaller takes approximately 24 hours to get your contact out of the worldwide database.
Before you download any type of application, it is important that you take a few minutes to read in detail what they tell you in the terms and conditions, since without knowing it, you can hand over all your personal and even financial data to these companies.
SOBRE TRUECALLER
This is the description with which it is presented to the online community: the company describes it as an unknown caller ID and call recorder that is used by users to solve their communication needs, whether to identify unknown calls and SMS. It filters out the undesirable and has a community-based list of unwanted and private numbers updated by millions of users around the world.