Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban

Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:52PM (#26678065)

I know it may be something of an unpopular opinion, but maybe collecting vast amounts of information is not such a great idea after all. In a similar manner, I have certain level of beef with bank managing to bamboozle the public that bank's failing to establish, who they are dealing with is identity theft and not their negligence. It took years, but notice how people no longer even question this perspective. Hell, there is ID theft insurance now too.

In other words, it is not obvious at all. It just unfortunate turn of events for average prole.

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Re:Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federa... by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:02PM (#26678111)

I don't think you'll find that "collecting vast amounts of information is not such a great idea after all" is an unpopular opinion on HN.

That said, it seems quite reasonable that companies collect ways to contact you, including email and phone number (at least until there are ways to easily make these unique per business so they can't be used to track you).

I'm just confused about how his phone number got associated with another account. Doesn't FB include a verification step for setting a phone number?

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