Hi! I was reading scare stories in Germany about people being harassed by call center workers who had the customers’ real numbers. This does not sound like a good thing, so I have been learning about phone number cloaking or masking. For example: What are Masked Phone Numbers? - Twilio . Does anyon…

An order would be placed in one part of my app. …then we package the order and send it to a 3rd party company for fulfilment. So I need to send a way of contacting the person if there are issues for the delivery. Uber does call masking, so it is a relatively normal thing to do when you do have to …

Well, you could probably do some hacky stuff to manipulate it and visually mask it on the screen, but the actual phone number might still be visible in the underlying data if somebody goes looking for it. What’s the format of the phone number? Is it consistently the same format?

Does row owners take care of this?

Row owners takes care of most of the issue - for those within the app. I was thinking about people outside of the app, such as a delivery person. They might not even have access to my app (so not an issue for me), but I could protect the customer by creating a masked number and only sharing that. R…

Oh I see, for people who might actually need to use it.

Masked Phone Numbers - anyone with experience?

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Jeff_Hager March 15, 2021, 8:02pm 2

Would the phone numbers ever be needed in the app? You can mark a column as protected, so it is never downloaded to a user device.

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Masked Phone Numbers - anyone with experience?

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