PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across

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PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/

Anyone surprised by this? Every AI and tech company wakes up each day asking the same question. How can we build an even bigger surveillance network, squeeze more profit out of it and turn George Orwell’s 1984 into reality? At this point, they are not predicting the dystopian future. They’re building it and charging its users for it. Truly evil stuff.

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@nixCraft
Until there is a GDPR work-a-like for the American Empire we are cooked

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@nixCraft You want to know what the worst thing about all this "Big Data" BS is? These companies lack the resources to protect the data they collect.

If Microsoft can't stop hackers from stealing user data no company running an understaffed IT department can.

IT trolls are expensive so we will just assume everybody is understaffed.

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@nixCraft Growth + Internet = Mordor on steroids.

(And google probably aren't the only ones doing it.)

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@nixCraft gross it added my phone number to my account which I've been refusing to do for years. Fuck you Google.

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@nixCraft

I keep my phone in the other room for Reasons. Seriously don't allow it near me most of the time.

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@nixCraft
this is bad. even if person is pro-google.

what if pro-google person has two accounts and two phone numbers. now these numbers get intermixed for both accounts, therefore bad.

where android gets a phone number? volte-profile from operator is one. does this mean that if android has both sim card and google account, then phone number leaks into google servers automatically. therefore bad for privacy.

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@nixCraft only for those not using #GrapheneOS

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@nixCraft
as a short story.

when i bought my first android device somewhere 2012, and it asked google account, it felt icky even in that time.

those times i used google accounts, but always separate for every android device. later, i stopped using google account somewhere 2019.

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@nixCraft your phone? If you've worked just a bit with MarTech, you know that's NOTHING.

Name and email IS the key that binds it all together. It has been like that for MANY years.

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@nixCraft Even worse are the governments and banks locking people to this surveillance because of the Google Play integrity checks.