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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.

A halftone black-and-white hand holds a smartphone aloft beneath stylized concentric wireless-signal arcs on a bright orange background.
By Rick FindlaySeptember 4, 202513 min read+ Subscribe

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