Privacy

31952 readers

464 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

407

Google: Haven't provided your phone number? It'd be a shame if something happened to your email... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

99 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed, or a burner alternate email. If Google didn't give any option other than phone number maybe we could make a case of ill intent.

I think the main driver here isn't that they want your phone (although they're happy to have it, I'm sure), but they don't want the tech support headache of manually verifying and unlocking accounts for tons of people.