I hope it’s clear for some why phone numbers are still required in most online services nowadays to “verify” you, it was never about verification, it’s about linking your digital life to real one. Now that a digital ID is required and tied to that number, knowing your number is enough to know everything about you, including your past as it logs where you have been too. So you post something “not approved” in social media despite being legal, you get a visit.
The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
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> You absolutely cannot get a bank account without an ID either. And yet, I have multiple accounts. Go figure. > How did you rent an apartment without ID? I dunno. The paperwork was done like a bit more than fifteen years ago. But I've only been asked for my ID for apartment-related things once and that was to tour a place in a shitty, shitty apartment complex more than... twenty years ago. > ...you must complete an…
If all of your experience of these things dates back ten to twenty years, I’d encourage you to look at the actual current requirements now, which are what matters to people trying to do things now.
> If all of your experience of these things dates back ten to twenty years...
No, it doesn't. The only experience I have that's that old is apartment renting and job acquisition.
And I guarantee you that
1) I can still get a job without ever presenting a photo ID. (Look closely at the I-9 acceptable documents lists B and C.)
2) I can get a reasonable apartment without presenting ID or submitting to a background check by committing to paying the first year's and every subsequent year's rent in advance.