"It then asked me to share my Telegram phone number with Microsoft, which felt weird considering I used to use Telegram specifically to talk to privacy-crazy crypto founders, and the app prides itself on its strict privacy policies." - Was my first thought, too. Telegram (at least in past) was often used by people who prefer privacy. Now letting a Microsoft bot inside with the need to share some data.. idk
Yeah, Everything is data harvest. If you research google pay and eth you will find that now they want our financial data not only our personal data and this is scary. The eth foundation passed the EIP that secretly aligned with google policy which we all know that still our data. Web3 wallet will not be possible to work with google pay otherwise. Do not believe what they say but value what they do.
Yep, everywhere our financial data is asked. Just yesterday I wanted to test a little the Universal Profile of Lukso and to buy some $lyx over there I would have to use transak. Tried it and stopped at the step, when transak asked me to provide documents as proof of my source of income or wealth.
haha, yeah there is a catch. You do not know how they store and how they use the data even they say this and that. That's not a new thing but in the past they did not ask for personal info. Maybe you can try to use changenow io if they support LYX.
