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Comment by slt2021

1 year ago

no worries, scammers and hackers already got your phone number, address, and SSN from t-mobile, Verizon, and at&t customer data breaches, and from one of the customer data mining vendors like LexisNexis.

Ahh, the "no need to be careful, the world is fucked anyways" argument. Whenever someone comes at me with this one, I seriously doubt their sincerity.

  • yes, you are missing on a better product without even gaining any privacy benefit, if you consider phone number as sensitive.

    you could registered with synthetic phone number (google phone) without compromising privacy, if you were that serious about privacy

    • Anthropic could also NOT prompt for a phone number if they were so serious about getting their product established. But its much better to shame potential customers by claiming their privacy incentives are just wrong...

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