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I wouldn't just give to any random stranger without them even requesting it, because why would I? But if I met someone, I probably would have given them my phone number anyway. What's insecure about that? I can always block them.
Because they might give your phone number to someone else, and then you don't have any more control over who has your personal information. That's how I look at it at least.
I can see someone who is in a very sensitive situation, like trying to escape domestic abuse, or starting a protest, might want the anonymity but still need the communication.
I fully agree about blocking. Giving someone your phone number is not as scary as the internet portrays it to be. In fact, people are hypocritcal, because they will give their number to a business where mutiple real people can access their info, but if they give their number to a person, they delusionally think stalker, harasser. People think way too much of themself. If I have a person's name and phone number, if I don't speak to them, I will get rid of their number. People don't care about getting a random number as much as the internet portrays it.
I have personally tracked down people online by just their phone number. OSINT is a super fun challenge. I do recommend you try it.
That woild make for good info sec. I would be curious to test how it does for numbers that are not a cell number, and anonymously paid numbers. I can get my wn number without a name for that phone number and pay for the phone service with crypto and cash.
That depends on how you use the number. If you sign up for services that sell that data, then starting with a private number is irrelevant. If you keep that number on lock, then it wouldn't be possible for Joe Shmoe like me to track it.