Facebook Phone Search by Phone Number - is It Still Working?
By
Arif Rahman
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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Facebook Phone Search By Phone Number
This feature made it easier for individuals to locate one another in nations where many people share the very same name (it comprises 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, as an example), however in a blog post, Facebook discussed that bad guys have "abused these features to scrape public profile info by sending phone numbers or e-mail addresses they currently have via search as well as account recuperation".
Facebook has also taken actions to restrict the data offered to third-party applications. It's tightening the review procedure for apps that request your images and messages, and applications are no longer enabled to request sensitive data consisting of marital standing, religious sights, education and work history-- the type of information that allowed companies like Cambridge Analytica to supply exactly targeted advertisements to citizens in the 2016 US presidential election.
Call logging
In the very same blog post, Facebook confessed that its Carrier and Facebook Lite Android applications collect individuals' telephone call and message background on an opt-in basis.
The website repeated its earlier case that it does not access the material of any messages, but stated it was required to examine the feature to make sure that was the case, and has actually reduced the amount of info it records.
" This [call logging] means we can surface individuals you most frequently get in touch with on top of your contact list." it explained. "In the future, the client will just publish to our servers the info required to offer this attribute-- not more comprehensive information such as the time of telephone calls."
These are all favorable steps, however are small comfort adhering to the discovery that Cambridge Analytica may have in fact collected data from 87 million Facebook users, as opposed to the 50 million originally reported.