121–130 of 524 posts
Great, and while you can get sued into oblivion for downloading a Metallica album, all our personal data is downloadable from a public website for 3€. Like for real, it took me 2mins to find the leak myself...
Regrettably, I was forced to create a FB account for work.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I toyed with that for a while but I kept missing important work calls. I might have a look for an app later, but I have a feeling it might not exist...
I wonder if you can get a VoIP number from a different country (where good regulation means spam is less prevalent) and use that for work calls?
Great, and while you can get sued into oblivion for downloading a Metallica album, all our personal data is downloadable from a public website for 3€. Like for real, it took me 2mins to find the leak myself...
At this point i don't see why only facebook and the thieves should have access to this data. If the data is public it loses its value
>This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019.
[0] - https://venturebeat.com/2011/08/09/hacker-group-anonymous-th...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works for photos because the threat model is about protecting local files against malicious apps. But for phone numbers, you about protecting Facebook API (which is publicly available via the internet) against arbitrary devices, which Facebook has no way to tell from legitimate ones
What I mean is: Facebook should remove that API entirely. Apps do not need a way to look up a phone number in Facebook’s database. The “find my friends using this app” feature does not require this capability.
But Facebook's app needs to access Facebook's database somehow; and anyone can impersonate Facebook's app and query that database too.
I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me. How are we still ok with this shit? The sooner we get rid of the cancer that FB is, the better. I didn’t share my contact book with FB apps either. It was probably her—a person in her 70s, not necessarily experienced with tech. The main reason this company exists, or that…
Cases like yours is why we created https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/facebook.com, which makes its dead simple to send such requests. Free & open source.
I would love this to spur some serious regulation of social media. The cats sorta out of the bag, but one can dream.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could store a salted hash instead for almost everything except using the number as actual phone number (call/SMS)
You need to do a bit more than that; a one-way transform with no secrets isn't good enough for easily brute-forceable data like phone numbers, SSNs, passport numbers, credit card numbers etc. There's just not enough entropy in the data. There are ways to do these things though so the spirit of your comment is correct.
Do you have a link to anything that explains why, and what the ways are to do these things?
Would like to know if non Facebook users are included because Facebook has non Facebook user's phone numbers due to the fact that Whatsapp uploads the entire phonebook to Whatsapp. That means Facebook is likely to know your phone number although you don't use Facebook or Whatsapp.