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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
(www.theguardian.com)
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Somewhat related:
Denmark has this problem too. There are some university resources that are unreachable to students who cannot do an SMS 2FA verification.
It's actually really discriminatory, on top of forcing student to give their personal data to MS.