PSA: Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-in Accounts

Google's Quiet Phone Number Linkage on Android Raises Privacy Questions

Google automatically verifies phone numbers on Android devices by default and links them across all signed-in accounts, including work and secondary profiles. The opt-out setting was updated in documentation last year. Users can disable it but must manually remove existing associations.

PSA: Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

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Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts

Google has made Android's phone-number verification opt-out, automatically verifying and associating a device's phone number with every Google account signed in on that phone, including secondary and work accounts. Android Authority reports: As spotted in a recent Reddit thread, users report receiv...