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Facebook isn’t doing a great job protecting the phone number you gave it
BRG ^ | 4 March 2019 | Andy Meek

Posted on 03/05/2019 6:50:06 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

The problem is that Facebook is apparently using those phone numbers for the purpose we intended (account security), but also, well, for other things.

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FB markets your soul when they get their hands on it.
1 posted on 03/05/2019 6:50:06 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m shocked.

Insert clip of Animal House “You effed up. You trusted us!” scene.


2 posted on 03/05/2019 6:51:48 AM PST by leftcoaster
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To: leftcoaster
The great money-making engine of advertising, in other words, is apparently too important to let a thing like a user’s protectiveness of their phone number get in the way.
3 posted on 03/05/2019 6:53:16 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: All

Could my birthday be at risk too?


4 posted on 03/05/2019 6:57:39 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The only way they can sell your soul is if you give it to them

Delete your account, best thing I ever did.


5 posted on 03/05/2019 6:57:52 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Or keep your account with phony nme and give them someone else’s phone number.


6 posted on 03/05/2019 7:00:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I ain’t sure who is responsible but somebody has turned the phone into an almost useless invention. Does ANYBODY still just answer the phone?


7 posted on 03/05/2019 7:04:20 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Why would anyone give their phone number to Facebook in the first place?


8 posted on 03/05/2019 7:06:13 AM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Shocker! lol

I never bought into the concept that giving them my phone number would “secure” my account....at least that it was the real reason for asking.


9 posted on 03/05/2019 7:10:13 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Well...what was it that FascistBook founder said about its customers?? Hmmm...something about ‘Dumb M-F’ers’?


10 posted on 03/05/2019 7:30:49 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: leftcoaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-glKGjp50Ug

Fun.
Sadly Flounder is gone.


11 posted on 03/05/2019 7:34:56 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Never had FB anything.

Still occasionally, the smell of burning sulfur and a bit of chill... When clicking on some sites?


12 posted on 03/05/2019 7:37:21 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: DUMBGRUNT
To be fair, though, anyone who’s upset by this should be aware that Facebook very likely already had their number anyway, via the way it builds out its trove of connections between users — the way, for example, your friends may have uploaded their contacts, including you in that pile.

Big Data is just the electronic version of human trafficking.

Selling the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of shoes..

13 posted on 03/05/2019 7:50:30 AM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: wastoute

“Does ANYBODY still just answer the phone?”

Never signed up or used FB.
Receive near zero SPAM calls, and I believe they are linked to the previous holder of the number.

My wife uses FB and receives spam calls/mail often.

Never thought it was a coincidence.
This article backs it up.


14 posted on 03/05/2019 8:31:54 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

You sure do smell them, they are just about everywhere and once the script installs it rides along until you clear your cookies... If you don’t have NoScript get it, it will block it by default and tell you if they are trying to add their 3rd party script to the mix.


15 posted on 03/05/2019 8:40:17 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Alberta's Child

The honey pot concept.:) It is pretty sad when the only way to protect ourselves is to become dishonest, deceptive, and misrepresent ourselves.


16 posted on 03/05/2019 8:57:24 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Trump.Deplorable
Delete your account, best thing I ever did.

I deleted mine on 1/1/19.

The only thing(s) I miss about it are a private HS alumni group I was in and a private Suzuki Savage bike group I was in.

I realized one day that my Facebook page had turned into a political blog and the only people who looked at it were conservatives that already agreed with me. Several said they would miss me because I kept them up on news they were missing. I told them to join Free Republic. :-)

17 posted on 03/05/2019 10:38:09 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (without)
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To: al_c

Why would anyone give their phone number to Facebook in the first place?

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I think FB was pushing members to submit their phone numbers in order to utilize 2-factor authentication, where when the user signs in with their password to do something important, a code is sent to the phone number of record that the user must submit in order to verify the person entering the password is also the same person with access to the phone line.

Not a bit surprised that they got Zucked again.


18 posted on 03/05/2019 1:44:33 PM PST by leftcoaster
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To: leftcoaster

FB has asked me many times to enter my phone number. Never have, never will.


19 posted on 03/05/2019 1:53:45 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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