Virtual phone numbers
Narayana privacy rating
Estonian telecom provider selling physical SIM cards, eSIMs, virtual numbers and SIP calling without KYC, paid by card or cryptocurrency. Registration needs no email or personal details.
Summary
Narayana scores 38 out of 100 (grade F) on the virtual phone numbers criteria. It meets 2 of 8 criteria: no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It partly meets TLS configuration. It does not meet open source, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in Estonia: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A- and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade F.
Score 38 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
Closed source; the company publishes some libraries and XMPP clients, but not the telephony service code.
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Yes
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 privacy policy states no third-party services or cookies are used for tracking, analytics or marketing.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by prepaid service fees, with no ads or data sales.
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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; the privacy policy only states data may be disclosed when required by law.
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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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Partial
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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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade F (15/100+)
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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.