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I'm amazed you did the phone verification thing. That gives Facebook a way to tie your online behavior to a specific phone number, which changes very rarely (if
by jwr 4y ago
I'm amazed you did the phone verification thing. That gives Facebook a way to tie your online behavior to a specific phone number, which changes very rarely (if ever). And if you or any of your friends uses WhatsApp, that gives Facebook information about your social network (by regularly uploading everyone's contact lists), and consequently inferred information about whether you have kids, which schools they go to, which doctors you call, and much much more.
I specifically refuse to provide my phone number online because of privacy issues.
- herbst 4y agoI don't have a phone number these days. Only evil internet companies ask for one anyway. If I ever create an account for whatever reason I just rent a phone number ($0.20) once and hope I can secure the account with different means than only the number (Google Auth or so) I never use a phone number twice :)
- charcircuit 4y agoFacebook and other services owned by Meta can not use the phone numbers given to them for 2FA for any other purpose than 2FA else they will get in trouble with the FTC.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y agoAnd yet they did
- jdthedisciple 4y agoHehe, joke's on Meta: That is my secondary phone number for my second phone which I use 0 Meta products on.