"Is Facebook still safe to use?"
Has Facebook ever been safe to use?
Have I Been Facebooked?
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Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
In EU there's GDPR and right to be forgotten. If I forbid company to store my data they're obligated by law to remove it from their servers.
Not quite, only if the basis for processing is consent.
Also not quite. Chapter 3 Article 17 covers the right to be forgotten.
1(b) is 'withdrawal of consent', but note also 1(c), which refers to article 21, which allows subjects to object, and you should (as a controller) have 'compelling legitimate grounds' to continue processing (which is a higher standard than 'legitimate interests', which can be the basis for processing the data in the first place).
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#214I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it.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.
same with me. it has my number from deleted facebook account
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#215I never shared my phone number with FB, neither for 2FA nor anything else, yet it is in this DB. Could FB get the number via my Android FB app?
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#216This says no but haveibeenpwned says yes. Hash collision on the HIBP site?
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not surprised, the data dump was an ugly mess of inconsistently encoded data in inconsistent formats with "delimiters" that often appear in the data itself. Cleaning that up is a serious effort and requires operations on huge files that are very difficult for most software to deal with.
I don't understand how a serious effort would be required, even if the chosen delimiter being present within the data is an issue, the phone number is the first field. I can get all the phone numbers myself with a simple `cat * | cut -d ":" -f 1`
That's the ID number you just grabbed. The phone number is the second field :)
If that's literally all you want, yes, it's not that hard. But a non-trivial number of people decided to put commas or colons in their names and other nonsense like that, there are lots of commas in the hometown or location fields which makes parsing those a pain, etc.
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
we’re talking about the facebook data leak that associates a number to an identity.
We’re talking about a website that allows you to enter a number to see if it’s in a leak. People are saying you shouldn’t put a number in there because if it’s not already in there, you are leaking some kind of privileged information. That’s not true.
If that's the case then please go ahead and post a comment containing your full phone number
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#219The phone numbers put into this website can be trivially reversed despite of the false sense of security the phone-number disclaimer provides: https://code.express/docs/blogs/facebooked/
Re: Have I Been Facebooked?
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not surprised, the data dump was an ugly mess of inconsistently encoded data in inconsistent formats with "delimiters" that often appear in the data itself. Cleaning that up is a serious effort and requires operations on huge files that are very difficult for most software to deal with.
I don't understand how a serious effort would be required, even if the chosen delimiter being present within the data is an issue, the phone number is the first field. I can get all the phone numbers myself with a simple `cat * | cut -d ":" -f 1`
Also be careful, some of these docs have BOMs that screw up parsing tools (even iconv crapped out on one of the files, Qatar I think it was) and the encoding is all over the place. At least the phone number is ASCII, but the names may be UTF-8 (with or without BOM), UTF-16-le or...