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Re:Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look ... by sangnoir on Monday March 04, 2019 @12:52PM (#19303378)
> Names are often not unique but phone numbers are.

Right out of "Myths programmers believe about phone numbers" which was on the HN front page a week back. Has everyone forgotten about landlines? Even cell numbers are not permanently assigned to a single person: especially in jurisdictions where pay-as-you-go accounts are the majority.

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