Facebook is giving your phone number to advertisers
Posted by Josh Taylor / September 29, 2018
Do you remember telling Facebook that it can access your contact numbers and use them for advertising? What about your security contact info? Probably not, but in a recent report by Gizmodo that should come as a surprise to precisely nobody, Facebook is doing just that.
Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books, a hidden layer of details Facebook has about you that I’ve come to call “shadow contact information.”
Full story at Gizmodo.
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