The answer is negative: this will not help. Director of the Internet Search company Igor Bederov said that changing the phone number will not protect against surveillance and will not erase the digital trace. Discuss
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According to the expert, there is open data that can be used to determine a person’s digital profile, and the new number “simply added to the folder with all past information.” Bederov explained that with the advent of smartphones, mobile operating systems, applications and the permissions that users themselves give to these applications, “the collection of data has increased even more.”
And the companies that own the OS and applications have in their At the disposal of geolocation data, they gain access to contacts, call lists, data storage on devices, a camera or microphone, and therefore form a digital profile of the user by interpreting the data received. For their own purposes, vendors are trying to determine the user's interests, requests, frequency of movements, as well as approximate income and scope of activity.
Conditional Google will connect your profiles with all new devices, with all new contacts . If you log into the same account from another device, it will connect it all into one profile. If you used the same connection, for example a connection from a workplace, it will also put it all together into one profile. And just like a snowball, your profile “grows.”
Igor BederovDirector of the Internet Search company