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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 99 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)
  • Phone numbers
  • social security numbers

Stop making personal information into digital ids because when it inevitably ends up in some kind of data breach. These companies all throw their hands up saying sucks to be you.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea 9 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, just generate a unique ID and ask only for the information you actually need.

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