I’m…less than totally surprised…to hear that the lovable mascot of tech companies that ought neutron purged got caught doing this; but does anyone else share my trepidation at the question of how many companies are actually carefully firewalling off one of the highest quality supplies of consumer phone numbers(you are much less likely to lie or let the data get stale if it locks you out of your account…) they have?
In the interest of not spooking the eyeball herds I’d assume that the more cautious ones refrain from overt, hard to deny, direct contact; but phone numbers make great IDs even if you don’t sms spam them: unless you are assiduously using burners for your ‘2 factor’ purposes odds are excellent that your number will remain stable (except during some interesting life changes like a change in employment that are worth knowing about in themselves); be tied to a trail of payment information, likely have plenty of location data available…
