The app is particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union

That’s fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I’m not fully grasping your argument.

What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn’t know the phone number of an account that sent a message.

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though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone,

Is it something new? I don’t remember it being a thing.

What do you mean by passport?

In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card. So phone number is tied to person.

Fairly new, yeah.

Oh, right, yeah, that’s bad.

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