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Essential Privacy: Cell Numbers and Email Aliases

NBTV: Your Money, Your Data, Your Life

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Verizon Sells Your Location Data to Everyone

In theory, only your mobile network operators are meant to have access to this registry. Commercial services like number portability lookup can do these lookups for you. If companies don't have your cell on file, they can't use it to buy location data about you. Use a VoIP number that we actually don't need cell numbers anymore.

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