For liability reasons, I'll avoid commenting too specifically, and I won't offer an opinion on whether what you're alleging actually happened, but lets just say that at the time, the situation really pissed me off and I was going to pursue legal action. There were a ton of things all happening during the forum transition, though, plus I was already being taken away from my "real" gigs (Realitone and composing), so I decided it wasn't worth the additional time and stress. After a few emails to the involved parties (or not involved parties - I'll make no accusations here), the mysterious emailings ended, so I decided to leave it at that. At least for now.Frederick (previous owner of VI-C) also sold all the VI-C user data to APD a while back (just before it was purchased by Mike Greene). The reason I know this is because I had a personalized email address which I had only ever used for VI-C. Up until I deleted it, it had only ever had emails from VI-C... and then suddenly got marketting spam from APD, A company I have never purchased from.
Considering Frederick was willing to sell the forum data, it's not a leap for him to sell the VI-C phone app data. This app used to request all permissions (when it was free, AND when it was paid) which would include your cell #, contacts, etc. that could easily be one source of a bunch of cell # to spam.
Regarding phone numbers, though, that isn't information that VI-Control has ever had. All that we have is your screen name, email address, and what DAW you use. Or at least what DAW you claimed to use when you signed up. We do also have the IP address you logged on from, but that's just so we can screen likely spam accounts. (There is no personal info in an IP address.)
Even with the app (which I discontinued), I don't think there was ever any phone number info there, since phone numbers aren't used when downloading apps. (At least not on iOS, where your Apple ID is all that's required.) Even if a phone number was somehow submitted during the process of installing app, I can tell you for sure that I do not have it, and I got everything Frederick had, so it was never given to us. As far as the app being able to access your phone's contacts and info and send the info to us, that's definitely not the case with this particular app.
For the record, I, Mike Greene, will never ever sell or give out your personal info. (Unless it's a legitimate one on one situation where someone who I trust needs to contact another member by email.)
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