N-gated Hacker News📞🤦♂️ Oh no, #Google, not again! Another tech enthusiast discovers that the internet isn't a private diary, and shockingly, their phone number isn't sacred. Maybe next time, they'll read the terms and conditions instead of writing a thesis on their blog. 😂📱
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/ #Privacy #TechFails #InternetAwareness #TermsAndConditions #PhoneNumberSaga #HackerNews #ngated
https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/ #Privacy #TechFails #InternetAwareness #TermsAndConditions #PhoneNumberSaga #HackerNews #ngated
Google Shared My Phone Number!
When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?