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You dont even need google to access your emails for that. You dont even need to be a google user at all, unfortunately.
I think the phone number is easily found by google, by all their users synching their contact list... If you're google and you have 100 people Synching John B. Smith with number 123 in Region A of the world, you're pretty confident that that the person and the phone number are linked.
And that's terrifying.
Imagine you didn't even heard about google, but some of your colleague/friend use Google contact synching (which is very default these days) And ta da! Google knows your name and number with 99% percent of accuracy.
Exactly. You don't even need to have ever used the internet. It's concerning, to say the least...