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It’s like when you upload a photo with your friend (who doesn’t use Facebook) and it pops up ‘Did you want to tag [friend]?’
> ‘Did you want to tag [friend]? You can tag someone that isn't on Facebook? I'm pretty sure the box use Facebook accounts...
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Yes, you can get tons of personally identifiable information from things like public records laws and such. That's irrelevant, though. This is a phone number tied to a facebook account, not just their name. A major difference here is the ability - at scale - to associate people with their facebook accounts. There are people who do not want to be associated with by their facebook account, and reasonably so. Not sure w…
> There are people who do not want to be associated with by their facebook account I figured that ever since Facebook instituted the "real name" policy, this isn't necessarily possible.
Is this even enforced? I've had a fake name for years (and I have plenty of friends who've done the same).
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In the UK it's as easy as sending a text [0] to get your number ported to a new carrier. Carriers must oblige. 0: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-rele...
I love how they used to pretend that their response to regulatory pressures was in fact a new product/feature offered by them. For instance, allowing me to keep my phone # was phrased in a way that would make me think that EE/O2/... let me do that for free, yay. Same applies to the EU regulations dealing with lowering roaming charges—the carrier I used at that time even developed branding for it. It’s a bit damaging…
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> changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers. What? That's not true, I reported the issue about user enumeration via phone numbers being possible in Whatsapp, Messenger and Instagram to them last week and they claimed (paraphrased) "it's a feature, not a security issue".
Do you intend to publish this correspondence? I think some companies prefer to sue people using these "features" instead of changing them. It's a good thing to have on record.