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Every time Facebook/Gmail/Google/Amazon/LinkedIn/Tinder/whoever asks me to give them phone number "just in case" my first and only thought is "hell no". I haven't been wrong a single time.
Found my number on there too even though I've deleted Facebook for at least 5 or 6 years now -_- Not sure when I gave them my number either, I hope it wasn't scraped from someone else's contact list... At least it makes sense why I received a bunch of spam calls over the weekend. 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. W…
Really?
Every phone number is already known to anyone who wants to get it.
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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?
If I give someone's social security number to a company that doesn't mean they can publish it on the front page just because the person it belongs to didn't hand it over.
Every time Facebook/Gmail/Google/Amazon/LinkedIn/Tinder/whoever asks me to give them phone number "just in case" my first and only thought is "hell no". I haven't been wrong a single time.
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.
Note to anyone that cares: Make your data as stale as possible: you can't change your address easily, sure. But you can recycle phone numbers (once a year, minimum). Change your credit/debit cards yearly (say to your bank you 'lost' it). When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required. Always use a fake name where possible. Sure, you need to provide that as a 'billing' address, but i…
I do something similar when a site asks for my birthday, i used to pick a random date, but sonce its sometimes used to reset password or asks u to confirm i just use the first of january of the year i was born so i can make sure i remember what i put.
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.
Email has decent spam filtering, and I think that kind of cat-mouse system will persist. That said, there's "room" for more whitelisting.
Honest question: Why would you give your phone number to FB? Related to their app perhaps (which I don't have)?
I'm slightly surprised to find that my number has apparently not been pwned, given the huge uptick in spam calls that I've been receiving which seems to be coincident with the Facebook leak.