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Telegram does the same thing. In fact, so does Instagram, which I find most egregious, since it asks for your number for 2FA purposes then notifies anyone who h
by TechBro8615 7y ago
Telegram does the same thing. In fact, so does Instagram, which I find most egregious, since it asks for your number for 2FA purposes then notifies anyone who has your number saved that you’ve joined.
Every coach, recruiter, drug dealer or one night stand I’ve had in my life doesn’t need to know when I sign up to Instagram. Some of them might not have even had my real name until they got that notification.
IMO this should be illegal, now that I think about it.
- BubRoss 7y agoThat's almost worse than having no volume control in their interface, even for their desktop site.
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- snazz 7y agoI think the issue here is that Instagram has a different idea of the importance of a phone number than you do. They consider a phone number to be more personal information than your full name. Your phone number is also trivially tied to your full name anyway, unless you paid for a burner phone in cash wearing a ski mask.
- Reelin 7y ago> trivially tied to your full name For a government perhaps, but not your average person. This is similar to claiming that my ISP provided IP address is trivially tied to my full name because someone could subpoena it.
- sneak 7y agoThis is false. You are thinking via a carrier; but it turns out that your phone number is mapped to your name and address in hundreds of private databases which are sold to data brokers. Getting name and email and address from phone number is widely available and cheap for anyone.
- lostmsu 7y agoNot by a drug dealer, no.