Your phone number is now tied to all your Google accounts, and you never agreed to it

Google is a company that has been in hot water more than a handful of times over the last couple of years for its blasé approach to privacy. It feels like mainstream media is constantly running stories about some new way Google has overstepped. The latest is that the company has been quietly verifying your phone number and automatically linking it to every Google account you’re logged in to.

There has been no prompt to ask whether or not you want to opt into this service. It just happened. While this might not seem like all that big of an issue on the surface, I wouldn’t blame you for feeling like your privacy was infringed upon.

You may have seen a notification that your number has been linked

Who asked, Google?

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