from /g/>Google Play Services is quietly "Self-Verifying" and linking your phone number to ALL signed-in accounts without explicit permission.<pleddit space>Just a heads up for anyone who values basic privacy on Android.<pleddit space>Check your

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>Google Play Services is quietly "Self-Verifying" and linking your phone number to ALL signed-in accounts without explicit permission.
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>Just a heads up for anyone who values basic privacy on Android.
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>Check your inbox for emails from noreply-phone-verification@google.com.
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>Without asking for my confirmation or giving me an opt-in prompt, Google Play Services performed a silent background "Self-Verification."
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>It exchanged SIM card identifiers and device metadata with my mobile carrier, grabbed my phone number, and automatically attached it to EVERY Google account logged into my phone.
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>No prompt. No "Do you want to link this?" button. Just a silent background action followed by a notification email telling me it already happened.
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>How to kill this setting on Android immediately (for now) but it will self verify even if turned off Go to Settings > Google (or Google Services) > All Services > Phone Number Verification
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>Find Phone number verification (or Device Phone Number Verification). (Ah, and lovely it automatically appear my phone number even WHEN IT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE!)
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>Once Google steals/verifies the number, it pushes it to your Google account profiles.
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>You need to log into myaccount.google.com/personal-info, click on Phone, and manually delete the number from every single account where you don't want it stored.
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>Modern "self-verification" dark patterns are completely out of hand. Check your settings before Google silently grabs your data too.
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>NO ANDROID IS SAFE: Happened on my Android 10 Huawei, Android 14 Xiaomi and is now requesting on my emulators too…even my tablet… Beware…
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