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Is it just me or... why do people even share their phone number with Facebook? What did you use it for? It wasn't mandatory or anything. Why the Pikachu faces?
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Couldn't it be there from someone who knows you? I was under the impression that Facebook grabbed people's contacts list on mobile apps.
So, that begs the question: If _my_ phone number is in someone _else's_ contacts, is it still _my_ phone number?
Is it just me or... why do people even share their phone number with Facebook? What did you use it for? It wasn't mandatory or anything. Why the Pikachu faces?
I also don't consider my phone number "sensitive" information I want to keep secret - it's already quasi-public and something I give out when I want people to be able to contact me.
I grew up looking people up in the physical phone book when I lost their number, fwiw.
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
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Did you deactivate or delete your facebook account? As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data. But if people did delete their accounts and Facebook didn't erase the private data, aren't there consequences to this?
> As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data That's the problem, what we or regulators understand may well be very different to what actually happens > aren't there consequences to this A slap on the wrist at best, I'd bet my house on it
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
If you’re a EU citizen contact your local data protection authority and file a complaint. It literally takes 5 minutes.
"What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected? "
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
"European Data Protection Board Members"
Anyway it's probably good practice to recycle your number every few years, and not use it for 2FA to make switching numbers a lot easier. Who knows what services I'll be locked out of once I change, let's hope not too many.
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
Couldn't it be there from someone who knows you? I was under the impression that Facebook grabbed people's contacts list on mobile apps.
Another option would be that someone else has that number listed for their account. Has Facebook always required confirmation that a number is valid? I saw one my friends' numbers in the data except the account had a different name.