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This is surely a breach of GDRP. One of the principles is that data must only be used for the purpose for which it was collected. Taking a number provided explicitly for 2FA and using it for search certainly sounds like a breach.
Ok, so Facebook has yet another appalling practice that's been known for quite sometime (see the Telegraph article linked in this one). The percentage of users boycotting the company and its products don't seem to materially matter. Facebook is making more money now than before. Facebook will not behave well on its own. Regulation and really hefty fines running into a low double digit percentage of revenue (not profi…
hahaha thank you, the thought of republicans or democrats effectively regulating a predatory corporation for malicious business practices made me laugh out loud :D
I refused the 2FA nag on Facebook because I didn’t want them to have my phone number Then after a while the nag started popping up with my phone number already filled out. Really fucking creepy and not okay.
That's why I don't put it in there.
My policy of never giving out my phone number to an American company proves wise once more.
This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not unique but phone numbers are. This matters because creating a new email account for recruiting is trivial, yet creating a new phone number for recruiting is not. Most phones are not dua…
Data hygiene is both the responsibility of users & social media cooperations.
I still wonder why people rely on the kindness of strangers (the people that run the social networks) trying to make money off them. & then start crying foul when they are treated like garbage.
Simply don't; - Submit data you find sensitive. - Use bonus credentials where feasible - Deny app access to your mic, location, contacts, camera & calendar - Delete your account if you have substitutes for the features Facebook offers
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No. This would be a violation of our data privacy policies and would result in immediate termination of all employees involved.
Given the complete lack of respect that Facebook has for individual privacy and the wellbeing of our society in general why should anyone believe this?
Okay so we finally killed off the telephone book and now Facebook reintroduces it? And you can't even opt out? My policy of never giving out my phone number to an American company proves wise once more.
They're not joking when they say this isn't new.
I remember a situation while I was still in high school (2011-2012 maybe?) in which someone tried to prank me by sending me SMS from a number I didn't have. I figured out exactly who it was using a simple Facebook search. The best you could do even then was to set it to friends-only, and the prankster didn't do that.
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I totally get people want a "only me" option here, but really how bad is "friends-only" here? If I'm "friends" with you, you probably already know my phone number in real life.
Because a "facebook friend" isn't an actual friend, and having these "friends" have my phone number is like everyone in a bar being able to look up my number. Or perhaps like going to a work conference and everyone being able to call me. The random "How are you are you single wanna talk about sex with me?!!???" messages are bad enough. I certainly don't want those as phone calls. Those on the list that are actual Fri…
That's only true for you if you choose it to be true for you.