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Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

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post #8

I'm looking forward to the sequel, "Have I Been 'Have I Been Facebooked'ed" when it turns out this is just a data harvesting operation. If you don't want your phone number leaked don't hand it over to a random website that pinky swears it won't keep it. It's maybe not a scam, but still...

I already get daily spam and robocalls on my phone number anyway...

Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

#122
post #120

Aren't telephone directories a thing anymore? At least in my country you can just search for a person online and see their phone number. Someone's phone number seems like the least sensitive PII.

In Australia, phone directories don't generally include mobile phone numbers, and with the massive shift from landline phones to mobile phones over the past decade, this means many people are completely gone from the phone directory. I suspect it may be a similar situation in other countries - the phone directory still exists, but is increasingly useless.

The view of the sensitivity of phone numbers and home address as PII has changed with this trend too.

Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

#124
I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone number. Really says something about what delete means for fb.

Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

#125
post #120

Aren't telephone directories a thing anymore? At least in my country you can just search for a person online and see their phone number. Someone's phone number seems like the least sensitive PII.

In Australia, phone directories don't generally include mobile phone numbers, and with the massive shift from landline phones to mobile phones over the past decade, this means many people are completely gone from the phone directory. I suspect it may be a similar situation in other countries - the phone directory still exists, but is increasingly useless. The view of the sensitivity of phone numbers and home address…

Interesting. In Sweden, mobile phone numbers are listed in the public directories (at least for me and my friends).

Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

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post #124

I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it. I did not replace the phone number with another phone number. Really says something about what delete means for fb.

that's illegal by European standards i think... i wonder if somebody has the money and the time to bring this to court. It would be necessary.

Re: Have I Been Facebooked?

#128
post #110

How does one know a site like this is not just an other data harvesting site?

They are in the EU, which means that you are protected by the GDPR. And the websites clearly states that no data is being harvested. I believe that two italian teenagers would not want to get sued to bankruptcy :)
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