For something as central as a Google account, it feels pretty unreasonable that a long-held personal number can be silently rejected with no appeal path or explanation
Because it is. Total surveillance only works if the people are forced to wear the tracking collar. The next steps are tying it to CBDC, that require a phone number to access your wallet, and tying it to realid/passport to restrict travel.
2FA has become the wedge to break privacy into a million shards.
Phone numbers have become the unique identifier used to build profiles of people and the providers can still claim “security” when they change it to pursue that revenue stream.
There are services online dedicated to temporary account activation phone numbers to bypass Google's requirements, but most of them can only receive messages. Requiring the user to send an SMS seems like an excellent method to get rid of those services so that bots can no longer use them.
I don't really see the point of a privacy-preserving workflow when it comes to a Google account. It's not like they need to know your phone number to track you.
They might adapt and support sending sms (hopefully) in addition to receiving them.
I guess all other services which send sms verification code will switch to ask the user to send the sms, like google.
>>don't really see the point of a privacy-preserving workflow when it comes to a Google account. It's not like they need to know your phone number to track you.
Also, if you can get a Google account, it's like a magic ticket to use services that want to violate your privacy. So, if you can get an anonymous gmail account, then you can use it for all the enshittified sites, and reserve your actual email for sending and receiving messages to humans.
AI is clearly useful, but usefulness doesn't automatically justify unlimited deployment, opaque training practices or turning every public service and workplace into an experiment
Daily is a very different psychological load. Even when it's "only 15 minutes" it can dominate the start of the day and make every morning feel like a small performance review...
The small standup you describe works because it is basically an interrupt router: say what you're doing, surface blockers, then move the real discussion to the relevant people
A recurring meeting is useful but I think the real forcing function is the public review of commitments, not the meeting itself. And the tricky part is keeping it from becoming a substitute for actual work...
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