Not sure what’s going on but it says my number is not part of the leak, but I’ve checked myself and it is actually leaked. Just be aware that it may not be complete.
Have I Been Facebooked?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if they were running it with nefarious purposes, it's barely even data. All they could realistically "harvest" would be knowing that the user behind a certain IP address was curious as to whether this or that number was a telephone number in the leak, and there's nothing to guarantee that the number belongs or ever belonged to the person looking it up, or even whether it is an actual telephone number or not. I c…
I feel like I was doing the same mental gymnastics when I gave fb my phone number in order to log into messenger on my phone, and look where it got us.
what mental gymnastics? Giving your phone number to facebook associates it with your account, who you know, your browsing habits etc. This does nothing of the sort.
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#143I'm a little skeptical this is accurate. Supposedly 1/3rd of my country's population is in this leak, yet not one of the 40 people i tried in my contacts list appears on the leak.
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#144My number was leaked (checked the dump myself) but I don't show up on this site. Seems like there are some bugs to work out
Likewise.
That said, the actual files are in fairly shabby shape and quite tedious to clean for DB import. They may have missed thousands of records.
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#145I am a co-author of the site.
We are already aware of your concerns about giving out your phone number. The source code is free and reviewable on Github. We know it's not possible to verify what's running on a server but we hope it adds a level of trust.
We are currently hashing all phone numbers so we don't have to deal with them anymore. We will keep you updated.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook. Facebook leak: Irish regulator probes 'old' data dump: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639081 I hope https://NOYB.eu is aware of this breach. Of course Facebook, or even FAANG, for that matter, would keep all of the data that they hoarded from EU citizens, illegally. It goes along well with the Silicon Valley mentality (I am culturally A…
> Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook.
I doubt it. They spent 7 years on a case against Facebook doing the absolute minimum necessary. NOYB are suing the Irish DPC in an attempt to get them to do their jobs. It’s a mess. Irish DPC apparently only investigated 83 GDPR cases and over 4000 “concluded without inquiry”. They only made 11 data protection decisions last year, compared to 600 by Spain whose data protection branch has a similar budget.
https://noyb.eu/en/dpc-cancels-parliamentary-hearing-eu-us-t...
https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2021-03/Letter%20Max%20S...
https://noyb.eu/en/facebooks-gdpr-bypass-reaches-austrian-su...
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#147Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook. Facebook leak: Irish regulator probes 'old' data dump: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639081 I hope https://NOYB.eu is aware of this breach. Of course Facebook, or even FAANG, for that matter, would keep all of the data that they hoarded from EU citizens, illegally. It goes along well with the Silicon Valley mentality (I am culturally A…
> Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook. I doubt it. They spent 7 years on a case against Facebook doing the absolute minimum necessary. NOYB are suing the Irish DPC in an attempt to get them to do their jobs. It’s a mess. Irish DPC apparently only investigated 83 GDPR cases and over 4000 “concluded without inquiry”. They only made 11 data protection decisions last year, compared t…
True. NOYB is basically the one doing all of the dirty work.
I donate to NOYB because they are actually the ones making sure this stuff is enforced.
There are great articles on the Financial Times about GDPR, tech regulation, emerging technologies, etc., that are on the spot. I remember one stating that all of the regulatory agencies for data protection in all of the respective EU countries were understaffed. It gave a great visual.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if they were running it with nefarious purposes, it's barely even data. All they could realistically "harvest" would be knowing that the user behind a certain IP address was curious as to whether this or that number was a telephone number in the leak, and there's nothing to guarantee that the number belongs or ever belonged to the person looking it up, or even whether it is an actual telephone number or not. I c…
I feel like I was doing the same mental gymnastics when I gave fb my phone number in order to log into messenger on my phone, and look where it got us.
How did Facebook know that it was a valid phone number, how did they associate it with your identity, and how did they know that number was really yours?
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#150"Currently, we don't know if Facebook has fixed the vulnerability since the company hasn't released any statement regarding the breach." "This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019" - FB
The data might be from an old breach, but the data are also unlikely to change very often, so is more than likely current for a large proportion of those who have been exposed (phone number, date of birth, full name, etc).