How true caller app works?Crowd sourcing?
Have you ever amazed how the True caller app works? And how
it recognize someone and shows you the Name and details of the caller instantly
when you get a call from that particular unknown person or number.
Today I would like to
explain you how the True caller actually works, so make sure to read till the
end of the article so that you will be clear about How it works.
The concept is very simple but it looks very complex to the
person who might not have knowledge about how it actually works. This looks
like a magic to them but there is a very simple logic behind it,The logic is
known as Crowd Sourcing. Whether it’s the Google maps live traffic
or the True caller or any other informative apps works on this technology.
The thing happens in this Crowd sourcing is they collect the data from you and
shows to you in return. Suppose When a user installs the true caller app in
his\her mobile, After installing it all the contacts which are present in the
users mobile will sync with the servers of True caller app. In this case The
app have millions of users and just imagine How many contacts they might have
in their servers which again they use to serve it to users for their queries.
The app might not always be very accurate to show you the
details because. Some times what happens is the user might not save a contact
of a person with his/her actual name and they might have saved like example: “bro”,”mom” etc..
or with some other nicknames. In this case the app will collect whatever the
Data present in the phone so that it will show it to the user who try to access
to that particular contact with the nicknames that was collected from the user.
But most of the times we get some idea who the caller is and from where he is
calling. As the users of the App increases the accuracy also increases.
So when you get a
call from unknown number which is not saved in your contact list, there is a
chance that it is saved in some other True caller users mobile by which
you will be able to see that particular details of the Unknown number. Many
people believe that if you don’t use a smart phone your number will not be
shown in the true caller names list This is absolutely wrong if your number and
name is in the list of any True caller user it will be on the server.
This brings out a privacy issue that your name is appearing
in the search results to others very openly without permission, But there is
solution for this issue as you can Unlist or remove your number from the True
callers list simply by going to the website of the True caller. So that if you
call someone your name will not be shown
to the user..
This is how the crowd sourcing works and at presents the
users are on large scale and the data of the users is much larger. They collect
the data from you and serve it to you..This is what Crowd sourcing mean.
They have permission to colllect the data and they do have a certificate that they don't leak your data
"Truecaller is submitted for publication in the Truecaller database, for which a Publishing Certificate (Sw: utgivningsbevis) has been issued. Such Publishing Certificate provides for constitutional protection under the Swedish Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression, see the Terms of Service. Please note that no other contact information other than the phone numbers and thereto attached names, Google ID’s and email addresses will be collected and used from Your address book" : From Quora
"Truecaller is submitted for publication in the Truecaller database, for which a Publishing Certificate (Sw: utgivningsbevis) has been issued. Such Publishing Certificate provides for constitutional protection under the Swedish Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression, see the Terms of Service. Please note that no other contact information other than the phone numbers and thereto attached names, Google ID’s and email addresses will be collected and used from Your address book" : From Quora
I hope you might have got a clear idea about How the True
caller app works , and also about the crowd sourcing technology..Do share this post
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Information source : YouTube/TechnicalGuruji
That’s all for this session, see you in the next post…
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