MUMBAI: An app that creepily lets almost anyone trace mobile phone numbers to their owners is the latest craze among Indian smartphone users. Available for most handsets — including the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian phones — TrueCaller, when installed on a mobile phone, extracts phone numbers from the user's contact list and uploads them to a global crowd-sourced cellphone directory of sorts.
"I installed it to alert me when unknown numbers called," says Mumbai-based PR executive Sanaya Vakeel who used the app to look up numbers of her friends and family. "I was shocked when it had name and other details about almost every person I knew," she says.
"I installed it to alert me when unknown numbers called," says Mumbai-based PR executive Sanaya Vakeel who used the app to look up numbers of her friends and family. "I was shocked when it had name and other details about almost every person I knew," she says.
