Yes, it’s a broad industry issue that companies like Facebook will ask us for our phone numbers and promise they will only be used for authentication [1], and t

Yes, it’s a broad industry issue that companies like Facebook will ask us for our phone numbers and promise they will only be used for authentication [1], and then leak them by publishing them on the Internet and letting third parties scrape them... I’m not sure it’s a problem we should normalize though. [1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/05/facebook-criticised-for-misuse-of-phone-numbers-provided-for-security/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/05/facebook-critici...