Privacy

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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.

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

submitted 2 years ago by chkno@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat

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[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dumb take. All it's warning you is that without those, you won't have a way to recover your account it you lose your password or if it's hacked and someone changes it.

[–] Matomo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm all for bashing companies regarding privacy and whatnot, but this is just informing/warning you about account security.