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One Phone Number, Several Formerly Separate Lives
· New York time
Google has made Android phone-number verification opt-out, automatically associating a device's number with signed-in Google accounts, including secondary and work accounts. An account-management setting has become a practical privacy issue. People separate accounts for ordinary reasons: employment, personal correspondence and projects need different drawers. A shared number can connect those drawers even when their labels remain separate. Checking verification settings can help users understand those connections. The phone is already a pocket-sized office building. Not every tenant necessarily wants the same forwarding address, especially when the building manager has filled it in automatically.
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