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

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.