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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 cert
by Mordisquitos 6y ago
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.
- wodenokoto 6y agoI 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.
- a10c 6y agowhat mental gymnastics? Giving your phone number to facebook associates it with your account, who you know, your browsing habits etc. This does nothing of the sort.
- Mordisquitos 6y agoHow did Facebook know that it was a valid phone number, how did they associate it with your identity, and how did they know that number was really yours?
- wodenokoto 6y agoIt’s probably been a decade since I gave them my phone number, so I don’t remember the details. I believe they required it for the messenger app and did a 1 time SMS code for first time log in to messenger.