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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Telegram releases Peer-to-Peer Login Program (telegram.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

There's some incredible insight here.

On top of that, phone numbers in many countries are also unique logins to a number of services (again, here in China you need it for literally everything, it's THE number one digital footprint)

This is one reason I particularly dislike companies that require phone number "verification" either immediately when registering, or sometime after. Services like Microsoft, Twitter, Discord, Facebook, all find a reason to request it at some point. And that request often seems to be related to whether or not they can pin down your actual identity or not...