It's absolutely bonkers to grant any app permission to this kind of information, even if the claimed use is legitimate. Just the normalization of that kind of a

It's absolutely bonkers to grant any app permission to this kind of information, even if the claimed use is legitimate. Just the normalization of that kind of access is causing damage to the overall security of the ecosystem. We really, really need to come up with a better "proof-of-stake" mechanism standard for spam prevention and authentication, than abusing the legacy peering complexity of SMS/WWAN access.