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People who have their phone numbers online could be at risk for scammers using their number to create a Google Voice phone number. Something as simple as putting a phone number on a Craigslist ad, ...

Telegram this week announced an update with some new features, and there’s one in particular that’s quite interesting. The platform will now allow businesses to use Telegram for phone number ...

Online verification has become a big part of how we stay safe and private on the web. Every app, website, or service now wants to confirm you’re real. But giving out your personal number can be risky.

Why wait for the blue check mark when you can get a shield with ‘verified phone number’ right above your following count. And since you can have ten different accounts under one phone number, that is ...

Snap’s latest developer offering is a tool called Verify that’s aiming to save its mobile-first developers cash on verifying user phone numbers en masse. The new tool is being integrated into its ...

Some Robloxians aged 13 and older can now access Roblox voice chat as part of a beta test in the massive sandbox game platform that draws on users' phone numbers for verification purposes, a Roblox ...

Apparently Chase Bank believes that phone numbers are better at verifying people’s identities than government-issued documentation, according to a Texas-based TikToker named Stefanie (@dahliathedyna) ...

Last week, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong pointed out that Twitter is testing a new profile badge for people who have verified their phone numbers. Earlier this month, app sleuth Nima Owji also ...