Phone app that identifies caller?

[Pete.]

On site this week I had to give my mobile number to the crane supervisor - a guy I had never met before. I read out my number and he tapped it into his Galaxy S8, called me then said my full name. I said "Huh? How did you get my name?"

Apparently the S8 comes bundled from O2 with software that identifies (or tries to at least) both incoming and outgoing calls. He said it's about 80% successful.

Anyone know what this app is called? I want to get it for my phone.
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[goto10]

My S8+ also does this, just came pre-installed with the app (I'm on EE - I don't think it's carrier-specific), if an unknown number comes in it pops up any information that it can find. I'm a bit sceptical about it returning info for a personal mobile though, unless you have it visible in some sort of online directory?
It's a service called Hiya - you can probably install it on anything.
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[bamt]

https://hiya.com/privacy

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But it's encrypted, so totes safe.


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[goto10]

Interesting, I had no idea it did that with my contacts. I don't recall agreeing to that, but I probably did...
(I assumed that it just did internet searches on the number)
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[UncleFester]

Err that's a feature of Android 7.
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[MahatmaAndhi]

I use TrueCaller. It does the same thing.
If someone has submitted their number to the database then it'll show. Alternatively, if one of your friends has submitted your number by calling it using TrueCaller (or an alternative) then it'll show too.
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[Jayy]

I remember having this enabled on my S7 Edge, would pop up information like "spam advertiser" or something when a number I didn't recognise was ringing.

That Hiya privacy policy is very interesting. If you think about it though, every users phone is a treasure trove of information on their contacts. Smartphones these days link all our social media profiles and everything to a contact in a phone.

People who don't give a shit about privacy and install anything and everything (and that's a lot of people unfortunately) are basically giving away my private information (that they have saved in their phone contacts) to these company's, even if I don't... that's one way of doing it!

I also just recently read a BBC article on people calling out some Facebook ad exec about them listening to people's microphones and serving ads based on what they were talking about. He denied Facebook have ever done this but my bro and I were talking about this about a year ago and he had been talking about some really obscure stuff, never searched for it and suddenly he started seeing all these ads for them within days.

[rpsmith79]

I use an app called Sync.ME on Android, partially for the ability to sync my contacts from my Google Account to that of Facebook (for profile pictures etc), but it also comes with a very handy Caller ID function, it is generally pretty successful to flagging up spam calls which i can just cancel straight away
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[Aff]

I use Truecaller as well.

Seems very reliable at identifying companies and spam.

And does a good job with most people too.
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