Doxx Me
Security and privacy
phone number privacy checker
SHOW HN2022
98points
214comments
#619of 2,570 in 2022
Top 25%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
6 positive, 97 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 46 critical, out of 150 comments about the project. Thread score -0.41.
Privacy: 0 for, 16 againstExecution: 3 for, 7 againstDocs: 0 for, 9 againstIdea: 1 for, 6 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 against
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What people liked
Results show a lot of detail for some numbers
From 2 comments
Pretty good. I entered an old Google Voice number I haven't used in a while, and it correctly listed all of my addresses back to my early childhood, what I minored in in college,…
rgovostes on HNLooks like it found the following information for me and my wife: driver's license, date of birth, current and past residences, emails. It also found the names and dates of birth…
bcrosby95 on HN
Objections
Data sources are not disclosed
From 4 comments
Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license history, where I…
CobrastanJorji on HNWhat are the data sources for this? I'm curious because it returns a lot of garbage for me with a few real results mixed in, and I want to know which things to throw more garbage…
blep_ on HNWhat data sources are powering this?
vorpalhex on HNI don't believe that you're only using publicly available data. What are your sources? It should not be legal to store all this information tied to only a phone number that just…
ranger_danger on HN
Results often contain inaccurate or unrelated people's data
From 4 comments
I tried it with both of my numbers and there was a lot of information, but only half of it seemed to be accurate. Some of it was from family members who were apparently conflated…
nfriedly on HNNot sure if I agree with the scoring model here. I tried two phone numbers: my primary cell phone number gets a great 800+ score but reveals an accurate address history of 9…
piscisaureus on HNSo while some of my info was there, there was DRASTICALLY more data listed that has nothing to do with me. I've had this phone number since ~2001, any idea why that would happen?
binaryblitz on HNI'm not going to reveal the phone number used, but I can verify that some of the information it returned was incorrect. ...Looking closer at the report now, all fields which…
Unselect6889 on HN
Asking for a phone number to be checked is a privacy risk
From 2 comments
No thanks. This kind of thing should be something open source and/or have published, manually repeatable processes. Sending my phone number to a random place associated with my…
batch12 on HNSo what’s your privacy policy?I imagine collecting a list of HN phone numbers, especially ones you can link to names and addresses, is pretty valuable. Are you going to use these…
prepend on HN
Unclear how the privacy report relates to the SIM swap protection service
From 2 comments
Pretty good. I entered an old Google Voice number I haven't used in a while, and it correctly listed all of my addresses back to my early childhood, what I minored in in college,…
rgovostes on HNYou do not support a way to keep my old number and start using a number that isn't associated with me, so I don't see how the doxx report is related to your offering outside of…
badrabbit on HN
SIM swap protection guarantee is vague and unsubstantiated
From 2 comments
> guarantees protection against SIM Swap Not from a marketing standpoint, but from a procedural level, how is this guaranteed?
aliqot on HNI appreciate the response, however it is quite vague, and I'm not any closer to a conclusion than when I asked. Would a yes/no type of question get a more straight forward…
aliqot on HN
Requests
Name the data sources and where each piece of data came from
From 3 comments
Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license history, where I…
CobrastanJorji on HNIf the data is publicly available as you claim please let us know where exactly so we can attempt to mitigate some of this. Thank you.
FiveClientAuto on HNPretty good. I entered an old Google Voice number I haven't used in a while, and it correctly listed all of my addresses back to my early childhood, what I minored in in college,…
rgovostes on HN
Explain how the SIM swap guarantee works
From 2 comments
> guarantees protection against SIM Swap Not from a marketing standpoint, but from a procedural level, how is this guaranteed?
aliqot on HNMaybe you’re new to HN, but this response should’ve been numerous paragraphs long going into excruciating detail about what how exactly the guarantee works. Additionally, there…
e-clinton on HN
Show which data brokers were used so users can request deletion
From 1 comment
Would be nice to know which suspected data brokers are used to gather this information, in order to send them CCPA deletion requests. I've previously spent some time manually…
lilsoso on HN
Show unredacted results
From 1 comment
Why are names, emails, and addresses redacted/censored? There are a bunch of names and addresses attached to my phone number that belong to someone that isn't me. I've had this…
jzig on HN
Questions
What data sources power the tool
From 3 comments
What are the data sources for this? I'm curious because it returns a lot of garbage for me with a few real results mixed in, and I want to know which things to throw more garbage…
blep_ on HNWhat data sources are powering this?
vorpalhex on HNI don't believe that you're only using publicly available data. What are your sources? It should not be legal to store all this information tied to only a phone number that just…
ranger_danger on HN
What happens to the data entered and how long is it stored
From 2 comments
How long is this data stored if you don't respond "YES"? I entered a number I just got yesterday and it comes with a pile of random combined people's data that aren't me.
349ecb77cd62 on HNWhat are you doing with the information gathered from this service? Will phone numbers that are verified active by the text verification on this service be sent back to the data…
z3c0 on HN
Does the company sell or share the data
From 2 comments
So what’s your privacy policy?I imagine collecting a list of HN phone numbers, especially ones you can link to names and addresses, is pretty valuable. Are you going to use these…
prepend on HNWhat are you doing with the information gathered from this service? Will phone numbers that are verified active by the text verification on this service be sent back to the data…
z3c0 on HN
Alternatives named
Truepeoplesearch
From 2 comments
Looks pretty much identical to what I get on truepeoplesearch.com, but they don't redact anything.
rootusrootus on HNWhatever your sources, it appears to return the same information as "search people free dot com," including all the same inaccuracies.
spdustin on HN
Discover card privacy protection service
From 1 comment
PSA - If you have a Discover credit card, they provide privacy protection and data removal services for free. They do scheduled scan and also submit data removal requests on your…
kc10 on HN
Privacy Bee and My Data Removal
From 1 comment
We put 2 options up - them or My Data Removal. Elsewhere online people seem to have an overall good experience with Privacy Bee. I do not think they are a scam or fake company…
jimhi on HN
Have I Been Pwned
From 1 comment
I understand your concern but we are limited by current privacy laws (for good reason in my opinion). I doubt we will build goodwill by showing everyone how to view unredacted…
jimhi on HN