Keep privacy in your hands. Interact with businesses with a virtual mobile number that isn't linked to your identity. Recieve SMS and calls to your primary number whilst keeping a layer of anonymity and limiting unsolicited calls, messages and mobile tracking.
For many years, we’ve used separate email addresses. One for family and friends, perhaps another for work, and then there’s the account you hardly ever check but give out to businesses you don’t want a two-way conversation with.
This is good practice. It adds a layer of anonymity and separates our interactions with different entities depending on our level of trust and communication requirement.
Unlike with emails, we tend to only have one mobile number and hand it readily for non-human interactions like account validation SMS’s, order updates, two-factor authentication and appointment confirmations.
This allows businesses to connect your mobile number to your identity, making you more likely to be affected by malicious use of data, data breaches, hacks, identity thefts or spam.
Changed My Number allows you to create additional virtual mobile numbers that aren’t linked to your identity. We're currently operating for US, UK and EU numbers, and if it goes well, will introduce more countries and services.
Would this be a service you'd use? Do you currently separate your email address for work, personal and others and what's stopped you doing the same with your phone number? What's your experience of mobile spamming/ hacking?
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