I have a question, what do companies do with your phone number ? can they trace who you are and what you do ?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    They use it as a primary key for linking all your other personal information, use it to geolocate you, use it to sell to marketing lists as a verified number, and use it to cross reference with other sources that leak your phone number.

    It’s the “one ring”.

    • deo@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      One number to track them all,

      One number to find them,

      One number to sell for spam,

      And in the metadata bind them.