Virtual phone numbers
Burner privacy rating
Second phone number app from Ad Hoc Labs in the United States. Paid subscriptions provide disposable or long-term numbers for calls and texts from a smartphone.
Summary
Burner scores 16 out of 100 (grade F) on the virtual phone numbers criteria. It meets 1 of 8 criteria: TLS configuration. It partly meets security headers. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report and tells users about requests. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B.
Score 16 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The Android app includes Adjust, Amplitude, Braze and Facebook SDKs, and the website loads Google and Hotjar scripts.
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No
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by subscriptions, but the policy allows sharing personal data for targeted advertising and lookalike modeling, with an opt-out.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy is published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
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Partial
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B (70/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.