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brlewis
on Sept 4, 2019
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A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found ...
If I never associated a phone number with my account am I safe, or does it also include phone numbers from contacts lists people let Facebook copy?
sapski
on Sept 4, 2019
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the latter, see
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...
nano81
on Sept 5, 2019
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Not true, you could only search for accounts using phone numbers people had entered themselves
Lewton
on Sept 5, 2019
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But your phone number would still be in facebooks database...
nano81
on Sept 5, 2019
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This article is not about facebook’s database it’s about phone numbers scraped through search which ended up in a third party database
kuu
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"numbers scraped" from Facebook's database. Of course this is about Facebook's database
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