How Facebook harvests your personal data from popular apps: At least a dozen popular apps secretly share 'highly sensitive' data without users' consent. ๐ฑ #delete_facebook
Facebook is slammed for 'unconscionable' security risks after it's revealed profiles are searchable by the โsecretโ phone number that you give them as a way to protect your account. Facebook has once again come under fire for its questionable uses of personal information.
A tweet posted this weekend by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge revealed a worrying method for looking up specific profiles that most users are unaware of: the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication.
Facebook allows people to search for profiles using phone numbers linked to a particular account, even if youโve chosen to hide this information from the public. Profiles can also be searched by phone number in the Messenger app. ๐ก #delete_facebook
A tweet posted this weekend by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge revealed a worrying method for looking up specific profiles that most users are unaware of: the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication.
Facebook allows people to search for profiles using phone numbers linked to a particular account, even if youโve chosen to hide this information from the public. Profiles can also be searched by phone number in the Messenger app. ๐ก #delete_facebook