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Facebook Messenger forcing Android contact sharing when opening the app
- raverbashing 4y agoIf I was someone who would look into systems for less-than-usual purposes, I would start looking at those data-collection apis and processing pipeline, I bet there's a lot of shallow validations and lack of limits It would be fun to see how many phone numbers would fb be happy to import as an example.
- jwoglom 4y agoI mean, companies like Twitter have already been bitten (and fined!) for using phone numbers collected for 2FA purposes for advertising and monitoring purposes, which is more or less exactly your concern: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-pays-150m-fine-for-using-two-factor-login-details-to-target-ads/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-pays-150...