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Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

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Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

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Post by cd34 » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 6:23 PM UTC

andysinclair wrote: post #26

But how many people have added their full address and phone number to their Facebook profiles anyway? I would bet that the majority of people have their city/town set and not their full address and won't have specified their phone number at all. However, this really could be quite useful if used legitimately, i.e. Facebook commerce, having shipping address available; location aware apps etc.

http://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook

Very easy way to check which of your friends has published their phone number.

Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

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Post by pasbesoin » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

I commented on this already in another thread that I saw first. My apology for bending the rules, just this once, by posting the same comment a second time in this active thread to make the point:

I'm sure my relative would appreciate her abusive ex getting his hands on her phone number. (And given past problems with third parties, I have to think this information -- speaking generally if not specifically -- is going to leak.)

You use the cell phone number as part of password recovery / identity verification (as I understand it). And then you do this?

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