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BlackPenNG:
In the wake of spam calls and other vices that Nigerians face via telephone calls, and the most annoying ones of airtel or any other of the network providers, forwarding bot calls to customers, Nigerians have found the need to identify the number calling before they pick up. it has either sides though, but, most of the time, it had really served its function of identifying spammy calls.

How does True Caller work?

I will write a quick run of how True caller really works, if you are one of Nigerians that don’t really know how this app works and have not bothered to ask google.

True caller just like any other app has a backend server, where it stores all info the app gets from users. Have you ever wondered why it needs data connection to function, this is cos, every time you use the True caller search, it connects with its back-end server, and gets a corresponding reply to its query?

Once you are using the true caller app, it asks for access to your phonebook, right? Hurray, all your phone data is being uploaded to the app’s server, which reviewers have termed secure. Fine. Let’s go on

So, as much people that uses the true caller app, all the phone book data ends up in the true caller’s server where they are arranged according to the server’s algorithm. With this, the server has a wealth of data stored in it, all over the world. So, I think you now understand that for every true caller user, their data is being uploaded to a server. Good.
Now, if someone calls you(A), and no name is reflecting on your phone, cos you did not save the person’s phone number, then use the true caller search. Once the person’s(B) number is saved on another person’s phone(C), who uses a true caller app, the name that person(C) saves the number(B) with, will reflect on your(A) phone. lo! And behold, you know who is calling you.

Cool app, but there is a con to it. Identity is relative, and what it means is this, to some people, I am Black Pen, and they probably saved my number with that, to others, it is Oludamola. Let me give you a quick example, I called a friend and my name reflected as Snr(Senior) Damola. This is so cos, there was only one person I gave that number, prior to that time, my junior in secondary school (Cos it wasn’t my hotline), so that’s what she saved it with, and obviously, she uses true caller, so my name is in true caller’s server as Snr Damola.(Finally, I’m popular)
But, the main reason why I decided on writing on this stuff you would probably have checked on google if you ever got curious is, “Are we really safe?”

I don’t know if you are aware of the scandal with Facebook, where details of 50million Americans was used to manipulate the election that got Trump into power, in favour of Trump. If Facebook could have such a massive data breach, which other app would not.

Remember, there are numerous apps on our mobile that we grant various accesses to our data saved on our phone. Social media apps, utility apps etc. my big question is, are we really safe in the midst of all this. It would be surprising but it’s true that with this chunk of info we give to these apps, we are really an open book.

Don’t be surprised to know that many app companies know a lot about you, and with the use of Artificial intelligence, they will tell you thing you don’t even know about yourself, even a crush you don’t know about.

What do we do?

Now that our lives are an open book, what do we do? Well, if you have been following me all along hoping that I would provide a solution to your privacy, I’m sorry to disappoint you, cos there is really no tech way to do that, to use their apps, you have to grant access. But, here are some bulletpoints;

Be careful of the apps you download; The Facebook scandal I mentioned, the company involved only used info gotten by an app that used Facebook account as a log in means. 270,000 people downloaded the app in the US, but with the access to people’s account, they were able to access details of their friends and all, amounting to 50 million persons, and poof! Data was stolen.

Try not to log in with Facebook or google; this might sound difficult, but if you care about privacy, go through the pain of creating passwords and details for each apps you use. That will make you more private.

Never let go of hope; Yes, in this you are not alone, let’s just keep praying/hoping that the big digital tech companies that already have our information in the palm of their hands continue to keep it safe and not do anything dubious with it.

I know you might be a tech geek, enthusiast or learner, if you have an idea of how we could keep our privacy better from this apps and software, kindly use the comment box below and share it. or questions you might want to ask, as you see, I reckon that I’m an open book, so use the comment box too.

It’s the world we are now, digitals. Privacy is only to an extent, to stay connected with the rest of the world, you have to part with something, and that is your information. But don’t be scared, the email you drop on this blog for subscription doesn’t have access to your details, so, subscribe to get more updates from us

Here, I rest my pen.


Source: http://www.blackpenng.com/2018/03/with-true-caller-is-our-privacy-really.html

vengertime:
if I hear, Fulanis don't play second best to Yorubas, so beat your chest somewhere else.

Concasty676:
I'm really beginning to get curious. Could it be that this current crop of illiterate ignoramuses who parade themselves in the dwindling charade of the nation's political echelon, are starting to jerk in fear, looking for a possible way to vindicate themselves of the critical dart aimed at them by their 'debt saviour', bill gates? Or could it be, that they are still playing the same old game? Using irrelevant statistics to show relevancy, even when the world knows they have failed woefully, beyond reciprocation? I leave you to judge.....

chngebeginwthme:
I never knew bill gate that drop out of school is an economist..

2shur:
wen ai watched toyota camry assembly factory on youtube
na dia i know say naija is really backward
just imagine the nonsense

NwaNimo1:
So he manufactured:

The tyres,
The steering wheel,
The gear stick
The engine
The wheels
The seats
The exhaust
The lights
The etc etc etc.....

Anyway, we no all skool for the same place,

Homeboiy:
5men a day x 5000=25000

25000x7 days=175000

175000 x30 days=5250000
5250000 x365days=1916250000

Jesu

iluvpomo:
Horrendous/ Annihilate are acceptable terms to use.
The very link you sent me said that ‘rape’ is not an acceptable term .... the link you sent me I repeat Oga!
Bro, convincing you is like trying to squeeze water out of a stone ...

iluvpomo:
Flogged
Killed
(Etc)
All acceptable figures of speech.
Rape is not.

Congrats on your Barca win.

iluvpomo:
I will quote it again:
However it's used, rape is a violent and ugly word.
This is why rape is NEVER used by any sports writer covering any game/sports. I am using your own link to prove to you and yet you still argue .... SMH

xmanco42:
Nice technology
but some modification has to made because such an high speed can cause physiological imbalance like increase in heart rate, disruption of bowel content which may lead to vomiting etc

STILESGANG:
Which big team has man city faced this season.,And don't mention all those manu,Chelsea shit?

Dujardin:
I linked bank card to paypal and it was so easy.

Dujardin:
September 2017. I used my Nigeria paypal account.

madridguy:
Snake in the eagle shadow

mikedimeji:
Just listen to urself. So it’s the church that heals, it’s the church that convince and raise the Dead as well, Just in a bit to say something u are displaying ur lack of understanding. I’m sure u know the story of peter.
For those that cares to know Freeze or whatever he called himself has never made valid point all this while, but for those that lack understanding will always see some reason in everything he’s saying. Judas Iscariot demonstrated some of this trait in the Bible how did he end. It’s a question of time.

Haric:
And you are a mad man

goodmanjustice:
Be looking for moral justification you hear. Instead of taking the message you are there talking about moral justification. You attend churches today all you hear is how u will make it, how you must get to the top, how God will wipe ur enemies. No teaching of the scriptures. Pastors these days are philosophers and motivational speakers whose spoken English is impeccable. You just keep nodding your head to the beauty of there expressions. Deep down my heart...very deep, I know Jesus and his father will be look at these modern day pastors n will say "who sent this one to do all des, and he is even saying he has encounter with Us."

Yankee101:
Jesus came as man, not a mighty Angel so men can listen to him...branding

Jesus dined with drunks and sinners, more concerned about them first than criticizing...branding

Branding is about optics, how people see things. If you don't understand that humans are visual and perceptive beings and have independence of thoughts, and you need to convince them then you don't know man.

NwaAmaikpe:



I wonder who buys Nigerian local rice.
I'd rather eat Foreign rice from Thailand than the nonsense they bag in Nigeria.

You buy a bag of local rice and find out it is half rice, half stone.
I don't know if it's to maximize profit that they do it.

NwaAmaikpe:



The truth be told,

Hoodlums are busy perpetrating crime and everyone attributes it to the Fulanis.
How are we sure this quack policeman was killed by a Fulani person?
Every crime committed now is generalized to have been committed by a Fulani person.

This is not fair,
The Fulanis are not an entirely bad people.
We can't generalize them because of a few bad herdsmen who are from Mali.
They are an energetic and devoted people who thrive against the odds.

They give us beef,
They give us milk,
They give us rice,
They've given us several Presidents.

Aside that, they are the only tribe whose women all have standing, pointed brezz.

If only for that, give them some respect.