Caitlin Sarian shows why casually sharing your phone number is risky and walks through Cloaked, an app that gives you disposable phone numbers and emails to hand out instead of your real ones. Assign each fake credential to a different company so your actual contact info stays private.
All right, I'm ready to check out. Amazing. Would you like to sign up for our rewards program? You get 10% off and all we need is your phone number. Yeah, I would love that. 572201. Great. 572201. Why did you shout that to the entire store? Well, the more often you give out your phone number, the more likely it is to be involved in a data breach or put on spam lists. It's best to just not give out your phone number at all or generate a secure one. Did you know there's a way to generate a secure phone number that gets forwarded to your phone and that way you don't have to get out your personal information? Cloaked is a consumer privacy startup that allows you to generate real working phone numbers, emails and passwords and assign them to specific companies, apps and websites. Check them out using the link in my bio. I'm definitely going to have to check out Cloaked.
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