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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.
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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.
Every 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.
Every 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.
I've been using a MySudo phone number to use for signups when I'm forced to give out one. Has reduced the noise i get in my messages for my real number https://mysudo.com
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.
It's a hard problem to crack. Some legitimate places need to be able to call you without you knowing them ahead of time. Say your sibling was mugged in Mexico and the local little police station let them borrow the landline to call the only number they still remember without having to check their contacts in their phone. Are you not going to pick up? There are a lot of these little edge-cases. Journalists, lawyers re…
Just wait for the deepfaked voice call scammers. Their best bet is to work up the hierarchy; a tiny local police station knows how to get in touch with a bigger police station that can contact an embassy, etc.
> There are a lot of these little edge-cases. Journalists, lawyers representing class action suits, government id expiring, and so on.
All of these use-cases allow someone to spend the time to contact you via your preferred contact method, whatever that might be.
Every 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...
I'm completely unsurprised that my phone number is in there despite the fact that I deleted and closed my account 10 years ago.
Did you deactivate or delete your facebook account? As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data. But if people did delete their accounts and Facebook didn't erase the private data, aren't there consequences to this?
After 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…
My phone has an option called Do Not Disturb mode. I have set a schedule to turn it on everyday from 12AM to 11:59PM. What Do Not Disturb will do is block (silence the notification or ringer) every message or call from someone that is not in your phone book. While unfortunately you'll still get the spam SMS, but you wont get the alert. The only way I can see striking back at these spam calls is to pick up the call an…
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.