I spent the weekend researching data removal methods and decided to start with my credit report. I’m not even going to get into all of the alarming privacy invasions that popped up during this process. But when I got to the experian report, I was met with T&C box that says I have to hand over my phone carrier info and it wouldn’t let me proceed without doing so. The bureaus are legally required to give you one free report a year. It’s bad enough that these companies are even given rights to my data and now they’re using it to request further information.
I’m just so angry, frustrated, and violated.
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Me too, and it’s worse because it’s not secure.
I keep saying this a lot but I don’t know why recently (the last ~5 years) everyone is jumping on SMS-based 2FA. I remember this was really big around 2010 and as a developer all the tools for SMS-based 2FA are deprecated or unmaintained (at least in my programming language). It seems like all these websites that jumped on board 10 years late have very poor security practices.