No offense, but it's hard to know whether I should trust you with my phone number: your "about us" page 404s[1] and your CEO is a...founder of a bitcoin ATM company[2]? I can't even figure out what service you sell -- it looks like an MVNO but with some additional security promises?

[1]: https://www.efani.com/about-us

[2]: https://www.efani.com/leadership

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 went to college, where I went to high school, every company I've worked for, my mom's name, my parent's names, and my gender. That's more than I expected that you could get, wow.

One thing your site could do but doesn't is tell me WHERE it got that information, like exactly where. Why just say "publicly available data?" I want to know precisely where you got all this on me, with annotations. Without that information, this is just a scary page that encourages me to sign up for nebulous services.

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 sending CCPA deletion requests to a variety of data brokers, and I've even tried two paid services. I know the effort is pyrrhic, and there's probably no way to remove all the information.

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, and the pseudonym I use on Facebook.

The "doxx me score" gauge is cheesy, and I have a negative reaction toward seeing those from disreputable banner ads around the internet.

It's not clear to me how the service you are selling (SIM swapping protection) and the privacy report are related.

Do you want to clarify what data you are recording as part of offering this service?

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

What services are you getting the information from?

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 ip/device/referrer/etc is just bad practice akin to asking for my passwords to evaluate their strength. Especially when it's offered by an entity that has an interest in monetizing 'protection'

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 with me, and some of it didn't ring any bells at all.

It had all of my recent addresses, and many more that I had never heard of, including cities I've only visited once or twice and two countries I've never been to in my life.

One phone number had 4 SSN's associated with it, and while the site doesn't show you the actual digits of the SSN, it does say the state it was issued in. All 4 were from different states, and none were from the state I was actually born in.

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 data or sell these data?

Whatever your sources, it appears to return the same information as "search people free dot com," including all the same inaccuracies.

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 phone number for over a decade.

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 behalf.

https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/

If 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.

No privacy policy... Not putting my number in there

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 at.

Anyone here want to write a mini-tutorial on how to pollute this data? I assume it's impossible to remove any of it, but it would be nice to poison it at least.

I'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 returned information were wrong. Perhaps it's returning info based on previous customers who have used the number?

Points to consider:

1) This was not my primary phone number. It's possible that a lack of activity used on the phone I tested this with made it seem like a previous owner was still the active owner? Perhaps if the service is grabbing very outdated information, there should be an indicator next to each result "Older than # of (time)".

2) A low score is red...does this mean that a low score mean that a lot of information was returned? Comparing this "doxx" to a credit card score is confusing, because a credit score is generally low because you have a lack of history. With this, your score is low because you have a lot of history. It's weird. Maybe low results should = green, with a low score; high results = red, with a high score. I see "high score" to mean "high data points".

3) Not every field was filled out for this number, but my score was deep in the red. What is the circumstance where a phone number lands in the middle? I suppose some fields might be weighted higher than others?

Edit:

(Pet peeve of mine. This isn't a personal slam against the company, just a criticism against the practice in general.)

I see you have one of those chat widgets in the bottom right. If a customer uses that, and doesn't get a response immediately, it's pointless and taking up space. If I want to send an email, I want the email address listed clearly on the contact page. A roundabout way through a psudeo-clippy thing stinks.

Some notes to developer: 1. it was never mentioned that the number must be from United States. You'd better add a client-side check BEFORE sending data to server 2. does this page purposefully disable right-click when number is entered? 3. embedded youtube iframe shows captcha page :D 4. as always, cloudflare gives a bit of trouble over tor (and not only)

Do Europeans have it better in regards to this? I think the situation is minimal compared to what it's like in the USA.

How would you suggest to make it more secure, staying in current line only? Any known solutions? It is spooky AF.

My report had an old work address listed. Not sure how that could've happened except that I had to have a background check performed while I was already there, and listed the work address as my address.

There was also an associated phone number that I only ever used on my credit card accounts. Hmm.

I took a risk and used it, and it's pretty spooky what's available.

What 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 broker you're using?

Looks 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 of our extended families.

I'm puzzled by all the complaints that this isn't public information. Where do you think they got it? (I guess the actual question is what do you think "public" means?)

So 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?

Not 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 years.

The second one gets a poor score (415), but none of the data is accurate. Have fun: https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/03d5ebeeb3e77922a858464....

I tried it. And one of the most interesting things it did was list a location that I use when we are running our GPS simulator for testing. My phone has received our signal in the lab (it’s a shielded room) and apparently they location data was somehow associated with my number. It’s just a random town in Ohio…a place I’ve never been to.

It appears to be broken for me. When I verify my number it shows the gathering information page for a second with the loading bar moving, then it just redirects me to the home page. I've tried in both Firefox and Chrome. I did get texts afterward saying "Thanks for letting us Doxx you" but I never got to see any results.

I got a bellow average score (455) which explains the high numbers of scam calls and texts I get daily. The interest thing is that out of all this info that can be found through my number there was not a single piece of information related to me. I think this is because my phone number was recycled.

You 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 showing others who know those details can find my number which I consider public info.

Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I'd need to know more about how the service works to consider signing up for it.

I'd consider paying for a more detailed report that explains not just what can be found, but HOW that data was found, and remediation options beyond the mobile service plan.

I have a ton of non-correlated data and have no idea why, but then I realized. I frequently use services like textnow, which link me to phone numbers temporarily, which are often reassigned. As a result, it currently thinks for the most part that I am 12 different people. LOL.

Looks pretty much identical to what I get on truepeoplesearch.com, but they don't redact anything.

Is this a tool that farms lists of phone numbers? Why did the OP put it here, jimhi?

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.

Took a risk and used it, like other people here. Then I saw the price for what they are selling. $100 a month?! Wow! Isn't there some other way to lock down this info?

Nice. I see a bunch of data points for people who aren't me, and none for myself. So my plan is to do nothing and interpret my number's low score as a high score.

This really validated my approach of using a Google voice number- which was completely doxxed. Whereas my actual personal phone number was not.

What data sources are powering this?

And this probably isn’t including hacked data from companies, just legally purchased data?

It failed to find anything on me and I've had my number for over a decade.

I’m fine with my phone number being published in a public directory.

How much 5g bandwidth do you get? What a huge lack of important info

Seems my info came from the massive Facebook breach last year

I 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 anyone can look up publicly online.

What does your service do to stop SIM swaps exactly?

Interesting but not very helpful

Nothing besides my carrier B)

So you mean you made a voter registry search...

What happens if I put in 911?