Inventory data information 2025: Authorities ask who owns a phone number more often than every second

Who owns this telephone line? (Symbolic image) - CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0: pat urikuLast year, government agencies asked who owned a phone number over 35 million times. These queries have doubled in five years. Owners of IP addresses are also queried, according to Telekom primarily because of copyright infringements.