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I once tracked down a Craigslist scammer by looking up their phone number (it was a groove number) within google voice. It showed his name, google profile, and photo. Their name helped me find their Facebook and Instagram. Long story short, I got my money back. Iirc: Google used to enable allowing people to look you up by your phone number (it was something along the lines of: help your friends find your account). Th…
This is a GDPR violation. I hope the author already complained to the authorities. (Since there is a German phone number is used in the example, I assume that the authors is from Germany)
I don't understand why this was downvoted. It is a GDPR violation. That's a fact.
If you try to search someone’s phone number, Facebook will only indicate that there’s an account with that number with steps to recover (reset) your password. Nothing else.
Go ahead. Find some random number in your contact book and search it. If there’s an account, you’ll see the email is almost completely masked out and that there’s no name given. If it didn’t work, try another number.
Facebook does show you the name if you’ve previously logged into that account on that computer.
Basically, there’s no GDPR violation because there’s no PII to get. A phone number by itself is not PII as it is not “personally identifiable information”; you can’t link it back to the person.
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Are you being sarcastic about the FTC? https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i...
oh yeah other than the one time. but if they had done anything really bad there would have been some kind of 5 billion dollar for the deceptive disclosure and settings and some kind of toothless compliance council involving the board of directors
This doesn't seem like something which is of concern but on a tangential note, I wanted to check how you guys maintain your phone number privacy. Consider the cases: - I absolutely hate giving phone number to new ecommerce sites as it is just a database that will eventually get leaked. The only one I can trust here is Amazon probably. - Phone number on packages. A person can read your name, address and phone number f…
I maintain dual sims in my iphone. For dates this means that my "burner number" also has blue text messages, revealing to them it is an iphone and that other features are available like facetime and airdrop in the future. I also maintain google voice numbers to set up additional accounts on places and more easily filter spam. Right now, my one device has three numbers on it. (2x sim, 1x google voice).
the google voice app lets you switch between any logged in google account seamlessly.
2x sim, 2x google voice. yay new accounts I can sign up to, again
In the UK...
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If anyone with you as a contact uses Facebook then Facebook probably knows it anyway
Most people I know don't have me as a phone contact either, typically just e-mail and Facebook or WeChat, but not phone. I don't use phone calls much, and I block all unscheduled calls anyway.
Feel free to believe what you want, but I don't think you have the privacy you think you do.
Before gathering up the mob and handing out the torches and pitchforks, you should probably establish what the facts actually are. I don't think the author of this post has really done that. The way these systems should work, and appear to work in Facebook's case, is that the amount of information revealed depends on risk analysis. For example, I just tried recovery from an IP I've used Facebook from, and from a fres…
It can be, if you have just a handful of email accounts. Also if you don't recognize the first letter you know you definitely have messed up something.
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It does show you are texting with a business account which might just seem weird to the other person. If they didn't find not having IG shady before, I am sure they will now.
You’re overthinking this. I’m aware of people that immediately ask for social media, and rationalize it with trying to disprove infidelity or an assurance they wont get murdered, I can tell you that most people I’ve dated over the past two years did not ask for that. At this point I think there is a level of maturity involved in not asking questions you don't really want the answer to, as they too would prefer not to…
Though I think a lot of people do want to see IG, just to get an idea about your life, friends etc. Like a way to know about you without prodding too much. I anyway don't use IG anymore so I just say I don't have it, and as you said they seem to be fine with it.
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I don't understand why this was downvoted. It is a GDPR violation. That's a fact.
Because it’s not. The author of the post is mistaken. Doesn’t stop people from claiming “big bad Facebook caught yet again” though. If you try to search someone’s phone number, Facebook will only indicate that there’s an account with that number with steps to recover (reset) your password. Nothing else. Go ahead. Find some random number in your contact book and search it. If there’s an account, you’ll see the email i…
If what you are saying is true, then OK. I was making my statement under the assumption that Facebook would indeed show profile picture and name, which then would be a violation of GDPR confidentiality and consent principles.
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I don't understand why this was downvoted. It is a GDPR violation. That's a fact.
Because it’s not. The author of the post is mistaken. Doesn’t stop people from claiming “big bad Facebook caught yet again” though. If you try to search someone’s phone number, Facebook will only indicate that there’s an account with that number with steps to recover (reset) your password. Nothing else. Go ahead. Find some random number in your contact book and search it. If there’s an account, you’ll see the email i…