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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, here in Europe we are full of privacy laws but I still receive tents of spam calls per day. Usually from non UE countries faking the number with my country numbers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Anything with a London 020 number is guaranteed to be a man with an Indian accent pretending to be from British Telecom.