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[Jost Amman]

While I don't condone leaks, data breaches happen on basically every website there is, if not all of them. When they ask for your email or your phone number, assume they have the level of trust as a day 1 security personnel who is as forgetful and as clumsy as they come (and might have ulterior motives, for all you know). I am not arguing morals, rather just saying "it just is". Companies absolutely should take full priority in maintaining the security of their clients' information. However, many do not, and are more than likely selling it overseas. It's up to each person whether this is an acceptable risk or not. This is why many people swear by the rule, "never share your face online". Or at least that's how it used to be... Society at some point just forgot that.

Yeah, I agree. Rule enforcing has become a joke. If they couldn't do it for something as serious as the Nuremberg Code with the experimental vaccines being forced down our throats during the pandemic, you can guess how much they care about our own privacy and the exploiting of our personal data for profit.

That's why there's no real way to protect ourselves. There are services that you simply cannot choose not to subscribe to, but when you do, your personal data is all over the world for any party to use.

 

[Dead Smarty]

It isn't intended to be proof of ID. It's intended to make it more effort for bots to spam the server. And it works. Some still will make the effort, but it's less than if it was entirely open access.

That's not what they call it. If the text in that box was indicating anti spam I would understand (and still reject) but they ask me to verify my ID.
So it is intended as proof of ID since they have a serious issue with underage users, conflicting with local laws in several regions all around the world.

Sorry to say, but you are assuming too much.

 

[Dark Sun]

Yeah, I agree. Rule enforcing has become a joke. If they couldn't do it for something as serious as the Nuremberg Code with the experimental vaccines being forced down our throats during the pandemic, you can guess how much they care about our own privacy and the exploiting of our personal data for profit.

That's why there's no real way to protect ourselves. There are services that you simply cannot choose not to subscribe to, but when you do, your personal data is all over the world for any party to use.

Adding onto what I said before, don't you think it's strange that companies never talk about data leak prevention, or at least how they're going to combat it after it happens? Nope. Not a peep until a breach happens and they go, "Whoopsie! Our bad! We take our customers very seriously and we pinky promise it won't happen ever again!" (Until the next data breach 3 months later.)

Companies don't care. That's a lesson everyone needs to learn and listen to.

 

[theFlu]

don't you think it's strange that companies never talk about data leak prevention

Not strange at all. You don't describe your fortifications to the enemy. The only thing you could safely state about the details of your data protection scheme is "we don't gather any data". Everything else is inherently unsafe; once you have data trying to boast about your security measures just gives an attacker information.

 

[meganoth]

That's not what they call it. If the text in that box was indicating anti spam I would understand (and still reject) but they ask me to verify my ID.
So it is intended as proof of ID since they have a serious issue with underage users, conflicting with local laws in several regions all around the world.

If that is the reason, then they don't really care whether it is effective. They only care whether local laws accept a phone number as a sufficient method to check for underage users. And probably asking for a phone number is the least intrusive method of all they could choose.