And yet it is still considered audaciously paranoid among the general public to protect your privacy by not having a Facebook/LinkedIn/Google/... account.
533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#192I 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…
Suggest you send Facebook a CCPA or GDPR data deletion request (even if you don't live in California or the EU) for your real identity. 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.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I've used similar tools in the past but this one looks more comprehensive.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, I don't share my contacts with FB or insta, but I think that she did. I don't blame her, she's not a very "technical" person and the UX is not meant to help her make a conscious choice.
There are many other ways this could happen, did you google her address on your phone browser or something like that? IG always seems to give recommendations based on what I've watched on youtube recently or looked up somehow.
I'm using DDG and a browser with 3p cookie blocking so this is less likely, but something might've slipped through cracks.
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I have WhatsApp and you can deny access to your phonebook. Everything works just fine
How are you able to send whatsapps to people you don't have a prior conversation with ? I am doing the same boat...and was working fine until i lost & replaced my old phone. All conversations were lost, and this makes it challenging to use whatsapp for any non-group conversations (since I can't start any).
You can start a conversation with any WhatsApp number by opening the url wa.me/number. The number must include the country prefix.
There are also some apps and webpages that helps with this process (Disclaimer: I'm the author of one of them for Android [0])
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy...
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Many online services will let you open a bank account with name, address, phone, DOB and social security number.
Without sending a confirmation letter to the address and SMS to the phone?
If you're the fraudster, you're providing the address and phone number.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#196I 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…
> 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. So what? What's the harm? People sure like to write emotionally charged posts arguing for privacy, but they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened. Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do da…
You've obviously never been a victim of identity fraud, stalking or psychological terror.
As long as the legal justice system hasn't caught up with that (in the sense of efficiency and prevention of financial problems) every data point that's leaked about you is a potential threat.
> fuss about nothing
Ever heard about rape victims? Ever heard about stalkers? Ever heard about psychological threats? Ever heard about someone being forced to do something they don't want? Ever heard about the fappening? How do you think those things have happened in the past and literally ruined people's lives?
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#197I’ve been getting a lot of automated/unsolicited calls recently. Begs the question if this might be the source of my woes. Is there a trustworthy phone number version of https://haveibeenpwned.com ?
"Is there a trustworthy phone number version of https://haveibeenpwned.com ?" An "exact" google search excluding adjacent phone numbers seems to work well for my numbers, and culls a lot (not all) of the autogen pages. So if your number was 212-555-1239, search Google with these strings: "(212)555-1239" -1240 -1238 "212-555-1239" -1240 -1238
Dear god, fastpeoplesearch.com is a horribly obnoxious treasure trove of information.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#198I 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…
I'm not happy with ANY of it which is why I have no social media accounts and I've been seriously considering a "dumb phone" to replace my smart phone. I simply don't use most of the features and it's a security/surveillance threat anyway.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#199I 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…
> 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. So what? What's the harm? People sure like to write emotionally charged posts arguing for privacy, but they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened. Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do da…
Post your personal phone number right here and I will show you what harm it can cause.
Re: 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
#200I 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…
> 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. So what? What's the harm? People sure like to write emotionally charged posts arguing for privacy, but they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened. Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do da…
What's the harm of people watching you while you shower? Everybody does it, you won't get hurt, so what's the harm of stealing your nude pictures?
> they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened.
- Hyper-targeted advertising
- Voter manipulation
- Surveillance of dissent
- Arresting dissidents
- Leaking sensitive medical data
- Leaking private pictures, videos, conversations
- Leaking your home and work address (hello stalkers and jealous ex-husbands!)
- Being refused medical treatment or having premiums skyrocket
But yeah, nothing serious, why are you so paranoid man? Conform, citizen!