What is the GetContact application and is it safe to find out how you are recorded in other people’s contacts. GetContact app shows you how you are registered with others on the phone

Is it possible to find out how you are recorded on the phone of another person

Mobile phone users often write down contacts in such a way that it is more convenient to remember an unfamiliar person. Emoticons, nicknames, descriptions of a person's characteristics are used. Sometimes it is useful to see how your number is signed in the contact list of your friends, acquaintances, relatives. Not so long ago, a curious person could only find out by looking into someone else's device.

At the beginning of 2018, Russians had the opportunity to find out all their nicknames without digging into someone else's mobile phone.

The new GetContact option allows you to see which nickname is written under your phone number.

The purpose of the GetContact application is to provide the name of the caller if it is not in the phone book. This is done to identify unknown numbers and to protect against spam. To do this, you need to copy the caller's phone number into the application, after which it will show his name and, probably, a photo. GetContact collects a database of numbers so that any incoming call can be recognized the first time.

The author of the application is Getcontact LLP, which was founded by Turkish citizens in the UK in November 2017. According to the developer, they operate in 148 countries.

The app is available on iOS and Android. According to the counter on the website, more than two million people have already installed it. As noted by vc.ru, the application topped the rating of the Russian AppStore for the first time in the “utilities” section on February 8, 2018. On February 26, it ranked first among the most downloaded free apps.

Users from Russia and other countries used the application to find out how they are recorded in other people's contacts. Many have expressed concerns about privacy breaches and data disclosure.

The application was banned in early February in Kaazakhtan and Azerbaijan due to the fact that it violates laws on personal data and their protection.

Earlier, the media reported that the application was also banned in Kyrgyzstan, but it was not possible to find confirmation of this: on February 9, after the ban in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, it was still available. After that, there was no news of blocking.

After blocking GetContact in Kazakhstan, the Codebusters development team launched its counterpart – GetContact. The head of the company, Murat Alikhanov, said that it quickly became popular and allows you to earn about a thousand dollars a day from advertising. According to him, the team is ready to block. On February 28, the creators of GetContact renamed their service to Pootin, vc.ru noted.

Pros and cons of GetContact app

Benefits	disadvantages
You can find out who is calling	Forced collection of personal data
You can see how you are registered with other people	Working conditions are opaque
Convenient interface	The application gains access to personal information, including the phone's notebook

Initially, when creating the widget, the main task was to identify an unfamiliar number and block unnecessary calls. It was found that the program provides an opportunity to find out how any subscriber's number is signed in the contacts of other users.

Interesting! The simple GetContact application puts a small load on the phone's processor, so it can be easily installed on both an old phone and the latest Android or Apple.

How GetContact works:

When installed on a gadget, the function downloads all confidential information from the contact list. Processes it and sends it to the base. A grandiose cloud of personal data exchange of application users is being formed. The cloud storage contains the data of subscribers who have installed GetContact.

The application allows you to find out how any subscriber is marked in someone else's phone. Allows you to read information about nicknames, nicknames and other definitions of the owner of the number, but does not show which android it is written on. Identifies and displays the person calling your number, even if he is not recorded in your contacts. Will show his nickname and photo.

It's important to know! If there is no contact information, then this subscriber does not use the GetContact program.

How you are recorded on the phone of others is a very interesting question. Many people want to know what nicknames friends and close people give them.

You probably already know how to install mobile applications from Google Play.

Therefore, let's go straight to using it:

1. Click on the program icon in the main menu to launch Getcontact;

   Getcontact icon in the menu

2. At the top of the main application menu, click the left arrow

3. In the search bar, enter your phone number and press the ENTER button on the Android virtual keyboard;

   Enter the number in the search bar

4. Now you need to select the button below “More results

   Click the “More Results” button

5. In the next window, you will see all the entries or words that your friends have signed you in their phone book.

This method is possible if your friends also have the Getcontact application installed. You cannot view phone books without an application through this program. But do not despair, because there are other ways to find out how you are registered with your friends on the phone. The app is available for iOS mobile devices.

How does the application relate to personal data and why Roskomnadzor wants to check it

February 28 Roskomnadzor of Russian users about the dangers of the application. The department explained that the user of the application, upon installation, gives access to all information from his page or phone.

Roskomnadzor urged users to “control themselves at least a little” before installing “questionable applications.” The department promised to check Get Contact. It has not yet decided to block the application, but if violations are found, it can restrict access to it.

Among your contact data, the phone may also contain credit card information, its PIN, passwords from personal accounts, etc., and all this also appears in public databases after installing such applications. Remember that unscrupulous developers of these applications can then sell the collected base to anyone: collectors, scammers, and others.

As noted on Pikabu, the information that the app can distribute includes phone numbers, social media accounts, photos, postal addresses, IP addresses, and phone records. Application users are afraid of aggressive spam and Trojans.

The application rules state that GetContact can share any user information “with any third party.” It can also send messages by mail or SMS, as well as “carry out marketing activities permitted by law”

At the same time, the description of the application on Google Play says that the application “protects against malicious marketing calls by blocking them.” The FAQ section says that the application does not distribute any data other than contact information. TJ sent a request to GetContact but received no response.

Reddit users have compared GetContact to the Swedish company's True Caller app. It “filters out” unnecessary calls and is also a global phone book, marks the numbers from which incoming calls and messages come, and also allows you to create a backup copy of the phone book.

Surprised that everyone is so easy to download getcontact. He's leaking your notebook. This is at least not ethical in relation to your contacts.

How to protect your data

Many GetContact users note that it is very difficult to remove an account from the application and their phone from the database. For this you need:

• delete the account itself – this can be done in the application settings in the “About Get Contact” item;
• Go to the Unlist section on the application website and remove the number from the database.

Removal from the database can take up to 24 hours. At the same time, if you go to the application again, the user data will appear again in the search results. Contacts of people “merged” into the database will remain in the application, even if the number is deleted.

Alternative ways to find out how you are recorded with others

We talked about specialized applications, but did not mention the most obvious ways to find out someone's contacts – using social networks and other Internet services. Yes, it will not always be possible to directly find out how we are recorded, but it is possible to establish the very fact of being in the user's contacts.

Via Facebook and Instagram

When you register accounts on these social networks, applications ask you to access your phone books. Based on this information, they recommend potential acquaintances and friends in order to add them to groups on social networks. This handy function is designed to find your friends on social networks, but it is also quite suitable for identifying who you are in contacts with.

Some people put their phone number on their social media pages, so it can be easy to find out this way.

Using Google

It's no secret that Google has a Google Contacts service. It, with the permission of the user, stores copies of a person's contacts from different devices, including the name and phone number of these contacts. If you have access to another person's Google Contacts service, you can see how that person is subscribed to. Another way is to ask another user to share you with a specific contact. So you will find out how it is signed with you.

Postal services

The last most common, but not effective way is to find out contacts using mail services. People who actively use e-mail know about the function of saving contacts. Often they contain a large amount of information – from the name and phone number, as well as other contact information of the user, to his position and other facts about him. How do I access my email contacts? There is only one legal method: ask the person to share this information with you and send you a contact.

By the way, during mass mailing of letters (when one letter is sent to several recipients), some people do not hide their contacts. Accordingly, you can see some information about the user's acquaintances.

How to find out about a data breach and how to delete your Getcontact account

When installing programs from Google Play, like NumBuster or Getcontact, users often do not report what is happening. The Android platform works in such a way that applications need to ask whether it is possible to use certain data from the device. If we give him access to contacts, then they will, by and large, be available to the entire Internet. You give permission to show not only your number to other users of the application, but also provide him with all the contacts and their names on the device.

It is not enough to simply remove the program from the smartphone in the traditional way – by holding down the icon and moving it to the trash. This is done in a completely different way.

You don't need to delete anything yet:

1. Open Getcontact options, click “About Getcontact” and select “Delete account
2. After that, you need to visit the official site – https://getcontact.com/ and, having lowered the page to the very bottom, select “Unit
3. In the form, enter your phone number, go through the captcha and click on the “Unlist” button.

You can now uninstall the Getcontact app. You won't be able to find out how it is recorded in other phones, but your personal data will be safe.

In order to register the application, you must agree with all the points of the rules from GetContact, after the approval of which the application can start:

• send informational messages by e-mail and SMS
• contact you by phone
• carry out marketing activities

The program also gains access to your data and in the future has the right to dispose of it as it wants. Are you sure you are ready to give developers access to their:

• contacts
• social media accounts
• photographs
• e-mail
• IP addresses
• call histories

Application ban

At the moment, GetContact is banned in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan due to violation of legislation on the protection of personal data. It should also be noted that Roskomnadzor has already begun testing the sensational application, so it is possible that the program will soon be blocked in Russia as well.

You can drive any number into the application, and it will show how this contact is recorded by other people. Thus, the program allowed jealous girls to prove the betrayal of their boyfriends (it is unlikely that his best friends call him “cat” and “bunny”) and led to parting.

HOW TO DELETE AN ACCOUNT

If, after all of the above, you understand that GetContact is an evil that you need to get rid of as soon as possible, then we will help you with this. First, you definitely need to delete your account, and then the application itself. How to do it? Go to the program settings. In the “Support” section, select “Delete account”. Then get rid of the application in the phone settings. Done!

How to safely find your contact's name

If you really want to know how other people are signed, but you are not going to share your notebook with similar applications, then you can bypass the restrictions. There are several ways.

1. Firstly, you can temporarily delete all contacts from your phone and, accordingly, register after that in GetContact, NumBuster or any other application. Although you give permission to view your contacts, no one will be able to find out anything due to the fact that the contacts are not on the phone. At the same time, you can see how you are subscribed to by other people. The method is convenient, but you will definitely have to save your contacts somewhere else. Problems can arise during recovery, especially if there are many contacts.
2. Another way is to install applications, register in them and see how you follow with other people without sharing with your contacts. Then you just need to delete your account and phone number from the GetContact service, and also send an email. The deletion process does not take long, and you can be sure that no one will be able to see unwanted information in a short time.

NumBuster mobile app

NumBuster is a similar application to the previous tool. It was created to protect against spam, fraudsters and calls from hidden numbers. You can also download it on the Google Play website by entering the name in the search.

Allow access to smartphone contacts

After installation, launch the application and allow access to the device's contact book, call history, and more.

To continue using the program, you must also enter your number in the international format (from +7):

1. After some time, the application will write your data to the server. In the meantime, you will see a splash screen with a corresponding message;

   Enter your phone number in the line

2. You will also need to check the number that the app has prepared for you. Immediately you will receive a virtual call, which you will have to answer;

   Incoming call as verification of your number

3. When the application is ready to work, you will see a branded splash screen and control buttons at the bottom of the screen.

   Application control menu

   The search bar will be located at the top. If you want to know how you are registered with a friend, enter his phone number

   Enter your phone number or your friends

• When the system detects it, click on the left button “Open profile

  Click the “Open Profile” button

• And in the section “Likely names” you can find the information you need.

  Block “Probable names”

The application provides users with various valuable information on a particular number. There are more than 10 million contacts in the database, and almost under each of them people left their reviews. Especially there are a lot of such records for numbers from which cold calls were made, numbers of scammers and others. NumBuster lets you share data across different social networks right from the page you're on.

Any person on this network can be selected even from the comments. Then find out his phone number, his name and other information about him. You can even leave a review about this person.

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