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The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you’re a EU citizen contact your local data protection authority and file a complaint. It literally takes 5 minutes.
(/verytrivial cries in Brexitish ...)
The UK hasn't abolished their implementation of the GDPR (yet?) so you should still be to file a complaint with the ICO (AFAIK; IANAL).
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You clearly misunderstand haveibeenpwned's place in the tech community.
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#174Re: The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
#175Every 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.
Let's not forget the notable case of Twitter "accidentally" using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it. [0]. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...
Twitter also had staff who leaked Twitter account PII from the Twitter DB to spies from the Saudi government, who have a habit of killing journalists from time to time.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...
Collecting this data is an accident (or murder?) waiting to happen.
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#176Every 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.
Let's not forget the notable case of Twitter "accidentally" using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it. [0]. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...
Twitter is especially silly in that regard. The info page on why my account was banned implied that one of my tweets violated the community guidelines - although I never tweeted anything.
Even more frustratingly, there is a form to appeal a ban. After filling out that form, I got a confirmation mail stating that Twitter will "respond as soon as possible", or in other words, never.
I do not understand why they bothered to implement all that hijinks to waste my time. Simply disallowing signups without phone number would have been much simpler and less dishonest.
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Interesting. I've still got no hits, which surprises me.
Only ~32m of ~190m USA Facebook accounts were in this leak. The US is surprisingly poorly represented-- a good thing!
As a foreigner I would say this is a bad thing. Ultimately, it'll be the outcry (or lack thereof) in the US that will determine whether or not Facebook will start taking people's privacy more seriously.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I deleted my phone number around mid-2018 and it’s also part of the leak tying the phone number to my name and gender https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708923
We don't know exactly when the data was exfiltrated, just that it ended in early 2019. It could have been taken at any point before that time.
Yeah it could be, will have to wait for more details first.
I would not be surprised if FB kept that phone number with a "deleted" flag to this day though.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I deleted my phone number around mid-2018 and it’s also part of the leak tying the phone number to my name and gender https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708923
Similar experience. Class action?
I started taking and deleting my data off FB 5 years ago, after I knew better. I'm only on FB because of messenger, and checks FB less than once a month.
I think that's a better approach than suing them and getting the $10 from a class action.
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#180After my wife's suicide (See the documentary Pain Warriors) I took over Karen's FB account as my own, and I changed the name on the account. Long before this breach I have been getting SMS Spam addressing me as Karen, on a number that did not exist when she was alive. FB data can be the only possible source of that spam. The spam is always trying to sell male enhancement products to 'Karen'. Anyone know how to stop t…
If you are in the US you can register at donotcall.gov
It's not perfect, but it has had an impact on the amount of spam I receive.