How to Find Your Friends Phone Numbers On Facebook - is It Still Working?
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MUFY UJASH
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
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How To Find Your Friends Phone Numbers On Facebook
This feature made it simpler for individuals to locate each other in nations where many people share the exact same name (it comprises 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, for instance), however in a post, Facebook explained that offenders have "mistreated these functions to scrape public account info by submitting telephone number or e-mail addresses they currently have with search and account recuperation".
Facebook has likewise taken steps to restrict the data available to third-party applications. It's tightening up the evaluation process for applications that request your pictures and also blog posts, and apps are no more permitted to demand delicate information including marital condition, religious views, education and learning as well as work history-- the sort of information that enabled companies like Cambridge Analytica to deliver precisely targeted advertisements to voters in the 2016 US presidential election.
Call logging
In the exact same blog post, Facebook confessed that its Messenger and also Facebook Lite Android applications gather customers' call as well as text background on an opt-in basis.
The site restated its earlier claim that it does not access the web content of any type of messages, however claimed it was required to review the feature to see to it that held true, and also has actually cut down the quantity of details it tape-records.
" This [telephone call logging] ways we can surface individuals you most often connect with at the top of your get in touch with listing." it clarified. "In the future, the client will just upload to our web servers the details required to use this attribute-- not more comprehensive information such as the time of telephone calls."
These are all favorable steps, but are little comfort adhering to the discovery that Cambridge Analytica may have in truth collected data from 87 million Facebook individuals, instead of the 50 million originally reported.