How To: Ditching Your Phone Number Might Be the Smartest Privacy Move You Make

A phone number once felt like the passport to modern life, but it’s starting to look more like a relic people keep carrying out of habit.

Rick Findlay

For most people, the notion of owning a smartphone without a phone number seems almost absurd.

A number is assumed to be intrinsic, as if the SIM card were the soul of the device itself, your portal to communication, identity, and legitimacy in the digital world.

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