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Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double down quite like this: By default, anyone can use the phone number that a user provides for two-factor authentication (2FA) to find that user’s profile. For...
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Mar 5, 2019Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number by panarky15739

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