If you care about privacy, you should get a burner phone number for certain situations. You don't need a second device—there are apps that will do the job.

And no, you don’t need to be up to nefarious dealings to consider a burner phone – or a burner app on your existing phone, which gives you a secondary line. Here’s why.

Do you ever have second thoughts after giving someone your phone number? How do you protect yourself? An app called Burner makes your phone number disappear and keeps you safe.

While the operation is similar, Burner is much more interested in the "use and lose" nature of its virtual phone numbers. (It's kind of like a phone version of 10 Minute Mail.) The app comes with ...

Burner, the app from California-based Ad Hoc Labs, In. that lets mobile users create disposable U.S. phone numbers, is now available in Australia.

Today, Burner is unusual among prominent privacy-protection apps in that it offers the convenience of caller ID blocking rather than the protection of end-to-end encryption.

The Burner app, which allows users to create disposable phone numbers, has landed on Android.

After enjoying much success on iOS, Burner, the app that provides "disposable" phone numbers, has finally made its way to Android.