You can make a call private by hiding your phone number in a few different ways, including using your phone's settings.

Whether you want to make your number private once or permanently, you can do so on your Android phone. Here are the steps to follow!

How to Make a Private Phone Number Group on Facebook. Using Facebook to share personal information, such as your phone number, can be handy for your friends, but it can also compromise your security.

On my phone, the caller id turns up a "Private Call" using this method. Seems like a smart way to keep your number to yourself when you want to avoid making it known to the world.

Intelius is another service that provides reverse phone lookup services, and it can identify landlines, mobile numbers and ...

The more we use our phones, the more personal info we give up. Experts explain how to make your phone impossible to track, or close to it.

“I can no longer keep private the phone number that I provided only for security to Facebook,” security expert and writer, Zeynep Tufekci, wrote on Twitter.

What I would have given then for a disposable phone number — something I could turn off once I’d made my hire. Today, there are options for keeping your phone number private.

Facebook says being able to look someone up by searching for their phone number on Facebook is a feature, not a bug.