To add to this, with the argument of fighting terrorism, since a while Governments around the world have been requiring phone numbers to be only given to people

To add to this, with the argument of fighting terrorism, since a while Governments around the world have been requiring phone numbers to be only given to people who identify themselves by their government issued ID. And guess what Facebook etc. are requiring at login. Phone numbers. For security they claim, yet they send spam messages to the number.