My twitter account got flagged as suspicious even though I haven't used it during the past few months and have a long random password. Now they want my mobile number to "verify" me in addition to a captcha. It is ridiculous and ovcoiolsly tech companies can't be trusted with personal data of that caliber. I have never used my real name with that twitter account and now they want to know it all, why? Greed is my guess.
Discord asked for 'phone verification' yesterday after failing to sign in successfully a couple of times. If they didn't have my phone before, how will having it now verify anything?