My number was leaked (checked the dump myself) but I don't show up on this site. Seems like there are some bugs to work out
where can i find the dump, I've wanted to check my data as well
I found it here https://archive.is/MZqak
Have I Been Facebooked?
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#132How does one know a site like this is not just an other data harvesting site?
There is sourcecode for both front and backend and the creators linked their names. So check the sourcecode and decide whether you trust the people involved that this is actually the code that is running the site
How do you know that the source code they published is the same code that the site uses?
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#133I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it.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.
that's illegal by European standards i think... i wonder if somebody has the money and the time to bring this to court. It would be necessary.
Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook.
Facebook leak: Irish regulator probes 'old' data dump: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56639081
I hope https://NOYB.eu is aware of this breach.
Of course Facebook, or even FAANG, for that matter, would keep all of the data that they hoarded from EU citizens, illegally. It goes along well with the Silicon Valley mentality (I am culturally American and I am from the west coast of the US, so I understand what is going on here. I also hold EU citizenship...)
The number one rule is "don't get caught". The "move fast and break things" mantra still holds well for Facebook. So, no surprise that they were sloppy with things, and got caught.
If you want to check if you were caught up in being Facebooked (data leaked), the download to the data dumps are here: https://archive.is/MZqak
I am furious at the moment because I found my (fraternal) twin brother's info in the data dump files. :-(
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#134I deleted my (outdated) phone number from facebook years ago and it's still part of the leak, with my name and gender in it.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.
that's illegal by European standards i think... i wonder if somebody has the money and the time to bring this to court. It would be necessary.
The EU does, they have often started anti-trust lawsuits so I don't see why they wouldn't start a GDPR / privacy violation lawsuit.
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#135Never handed over my number when I could avoid it. I'm very suspicious about it for some reason
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb f**s.
Culture comes straight from the top. You can certainly tell that with Facebook and Zuckerberg. A good solution to this would be to put a hiring freeze on any ex-Facebooker and claim that if they can overlook Facebook's questionable practices, then they would be a danger for your company and its customers. Hold employees responsible for the actions of their employer. You could institute a "two year freeze" for any FB…
I'm not saying that employees are always exempt from responsibility, but your brute-force approach is tyrannical, scary... Just imagine what all other employees would think if such an action would be possible, everyone would be afraid to do his job, everything would collapse. These are complex problems, there can't be an easy guillotine-like solution.
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#137How does one know a site like this is not just an other data harvesting site?
Even if they were running it with nefarious purposes, it's barely even data. All they could realistically "harvest" would be knowing that the user behind a certain IP address was curious as to whether this or that number was a telephone number in the leak, and there's nothing to guarantee that the number belongs or ever belonged to the person looking it up, or even whether it is an actual telephone number or not.
I could see the "big-data" value of that information if they managed to get a significant proportion of the population to check this website, but even that would be barely worth the effort.
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#138Aren't telephone directories a thing anymore? At least in my country you can just search for a person online and see their phone number. Someone's phone number seems like the least sensitive PII.
Usually those phone directories don't include other personal information, like gender.
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#139How does one know a site like this is not just an other data harvesting site?
Even if they were running it with nefarious purposes, it's barely even data. All they could realistically "harvest" would be knowing that the user behind a certain IP address was curious as to whether this or that number was a telephone number in the leak, and there's nothing to guarantee that the number belongs or ever belonged to the person looking it up, or even whether it is an actual telephone number or not. I c…
I feel like I was doing the same mental gymnastics when I gave fb my phone number in order to log into messenger on my phone, and look where it got us.
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#140Wish it supported wildcards. I'm not comfortable putting in my phone number for the exact reasons the author states.
Allowing searches with wildcards is analogous to publishing the entire database. That being said, I think the cat is out of the bag on this one so maybe that wouldn’t be the end of the world.
The data is already public, to be honest.