Giving up your personal phone number to telemarketers or during transactions on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist isn't ideal. Instead of divulging private details to people you don't know, you can ...

Personal privacy has become such an important topic in the digital realm, where it's increasingly contested by various factors. While the phone number on your Android phone plays a critical role in ...

Burner phone numbers are phone numbers you can attach to your primary phone as a secondary number. They are often disposable, so you can simply stop using it like you would a normal burner phone.

Fake names and throwaway phones used to be the stuff of spies. Now, they’re for everyone, thanks to concerns about digital surveillance. “Burners” — or prepaid phones not tied to your name — can be a ...

Greg Cohn at Ad Hoc Labs. Greg Cohn sees phone numbers not as a string of digits but as a digital identifier, like an email address. But unlike email, where one person is likely to have two, three or ...

A friend of mine, Sam, recently listed his Nokia Lumia phone for sale online. After making arrangements to meet a buyer, he went to the AT&T store to have them wipe his phone of personal data.

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