2025-05-26 05:46 UTC
Interesting story about Google publishing someone's phone number on searches for them when they gave the number to Google for account verification/security:
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
Reminds me of the time a company I worked for (AFAIK) accidentally used phone numbers obtained the same way for ad targeting and got fined $150M
Replies (3)
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@tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one 2025-05-26 06:28
@danluu so shocked. dies from eyes rolling back so far in their head that they popped out *
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@marcel@waldvogel.family 2025-05-26 07:43
@danluu Besides DanQ's hypothesis (Google added his verification phone number as the business phone number), there is also this hypothesis down in the comments. Which might be even worse and mor privacy-invading. https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/
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@pushcx@ruby.social 2025-05-26 15:19
@danluu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095288