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Google Phone Number Cross-Account Linking
Google is reportedly linking phone numbers across all of a user's signed-in accounts without clear disclosure, raising privacy concerns about cross-account data practices.
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Google is reportedly silently linking users' phone numbers across all signed-in accounts, a practice uncovered through investigation into Android's auto phone-number verification behavior (Android Authority, October 14). This raises privacy concerns about undisclosed data linkage across Google services and could become a point of regulatory or legal scrutiny regarding user consent and data practices.