[LadyCailin]

A phone number given to a generally reputable company is hardly equivalent to giving a rando your social security number.

I mean, obviously you disagree with them being generally reputable, but you must realize that’s not a broad opinion, and they are certainly better at preventing data breaches than the average company that stores phone numbers.

Sincerely though, I hope you get your GDPR request sorted.

[fsflover]

> generally reputable company

Are you talking about Microsoft here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#Controversies

[LadyCailin]

Hence the qualifier “generally”. I’m not saying they’re above reproach, but I am saying that companies that care far less about data security already have my phone number, such as most/all of my utilities - including my phone company. And those aren’t realistically optional.

[baobun]

> but I am saying that companies that care far less about data security already have my phone number

Not mine and it sucks that this means I'm not welcome as FireFox contributor anymore unless I move countries just to register a monthly contract for a dedicated GitHub-accepted SIM card.

Once you trigger phone-number verification requirement your account is globally shadowbanned and support blocked pending SMS code verification. Aside from the privacy issue it's completely blocking people in the several countries (beyond the ones offially totally banned due to sanctions) to which GitHub won't even try to SMS/call.

Remember that registering a second account would be violating GitHub ToS.

[janbrasna]

> sucks that this means I'm not welcome as FireFox contributor anymore

Nothing has changed regarding being a contributor. Bugzilla, Phabricator, Lando. You don't really interact with GH other than read-only needs as code search. (Which, funnily, is currently the most rate-limited thing on the whole of GH ;D) — but luckily as long as there's the Hg mirror, Searchfox continues to being used for that as well.

[IIsi50MHz]

It looks like patches still get submitted to another system, and github is only used indirectly for version control.

[fsflover]

> companies that care far less about data security already have my phone number ... including my phone company.

Far less than these?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40592789

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Privacy...

This is unlikely.

[Dylan16807]

The bar is a lot lower than you think.

[fsflover]

Tell me more. Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993076