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Dan Q

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Personal website and blog of Dan Q: life, technology, magic, games, the Web, relationships, and more.

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Google shared my phone number

When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google…