Did anyone ever question this? Of course they want the phone number to identify you across data-sets. That's why some of us get a new phone number for each service that's important enough. I even made myself an android app that allows my "burner phones" in the basement to send xmpp messages to my real phone with these 2FA messages.

> Apple should offer unlimited additional phone numbers that work as inbound SMS lines only.

That’s a pretty funny: the next front could be a battle between FAANG (each of whom need the others) for/against privacy.

I hope A do this.

Another post on HN as we speak, titled "Facebook claimed phone number was only for 2FA. Now it's searchable."