Google users who intentionally maintain distinct, separate profiles are facing new privacy questions. Reports indicate that the company is linking phone numbers across multiple accounts, even when individuals deliberately intended to keep those accounts isolated from one another.
Many users rely on separate accounts to compartmentalize their digital footprints, such as distinguishing professional activities from personal communications or managing secondary profiles. Automatically connecting a single phone number across these profiles risks eroding the boundaries users have purposefully put in place.
While phone numbers are routinely utilized by modern platforms for security verification and recovery purposes, cross-linking them across distinct accounts creates complications for user autonomy and privacy management across Google services.
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