Privacytools.io: ❌ Software Removal | Soverin Email Provider
Description
Soverin requires disclosing a phone number on registration.
Why I am making the suggestion
This is against the criteria:
- "Don't require personally identifiable information (PII) besides username and password."
Zenithium
All 11 comments
Mmm, this is some big shit. I wonder if sending an e-mail to them may do something to change this.
5a384507-18ce-417c-bb55-d4dfcc8883fe
on 5 Mar 2020
@5a384507-18ce-417c-bb55-d4dfcc8883fe @dngray said he would mail them to see what can be done about this but I doubt anything will come of it. The phone number requirement is spread all throughout their policies and by their wording they seem to consider it essential for providing the service. Hoping that they resolve this though, supposedly they require it for password recovery but it seems like a nonsense half-truth. One other reason would be spam prevention but the service is already pay-to-use so I don't see any reason why they need a phone number as mandatory for registration.
Zenithium
on 5 Mar 2020
I think they deserve to be delisted if they won't change that, CTemplar is going to be added soon (I think) and there are quite a few providers that even give you free tiers, so I don't think they deserve it, if you keep in mind that most SIM cards are literally tied to you ID.
5a384507-18ce-417c-bb55-d4dfcc8883fe
on 5 Mar 2020
I've sent them an email, we'll see if we can get some more details.
dngray
on 7 Mar 2020
@dngray Any word from them so far?
blacklight447-ptio
on 26 Mar 2020
I sent them a follow up reply, I guess we will see where it goes.
I'm happy to be lenient for the time being given the state of the world at the moment.
dngray
on 26 Mar 2020
I did get a reply, apparently they are "looking into it".
dngray
on 27 Mar 2020
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fabianski7
on 17 Apr 2020
@dngray any updates?
blacklight447-ptio
on 5 May 2020
@dngray any updates?
Unfortunately no, they haven't gotten back to me since before. I will poke them again on this.
dngray
on 5 May 2020
Last I heard from them was on Mar 26, 20:34 CET 2020 when they said they were looking into it.
I contacted them again on 5th May 2020 and then finally on 15th Aug 2020 and got no reply.
dngray
on 23 Aug 2020
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@5a384507-18ce-417c-bb55-d4dfcc8883fe @dngray said he would mail them to see what can be done about this but I doubt anything will come of it. The phone number requirement is spread all throughout their policies and by their wording they seem to consider it essential for providing the service. Hoping that they resolve this though, supposedly they require it for password recovery but it seems like a nonsense half-truth. One other reason would be spam prevention but the service is already pay-to-use so I don't see any reason why they need a phone number as mandatory for registration.