Find A Facebook Friend by Phone Number - is It Still Working?
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Arif Rahman
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Monday, June 22, 2020
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Find A Facebook Friend By Phone Number
This feature made it easier for individuals to discover one another in nations where many individuals share the exact same name (it makes up 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, for instance), but in a blog post, Facebook discussed that offenders have "over used these functions to scrape public profile information by submitting contact number or email addresses they currently have via search as well as account recuperation".
Facebook has also taken steps to restrict the information readily available to third-party apps. It's tightening up the review procedure for applications that request your photos as well as messages, and applications are no longer allowed to request delicate information including marriage status, spiritual sights, education and also work history-- the kind of information that made it possible for organizations like Cambridge Analytica to supply specifically targeted ads to voters in the 2016 United States governmental political election.
Call logging
In the exact same post, Facebook admitted that its Carrier and Facebook Lite Android applications collect users' phone call and also text background on an opt-in basis.
The site repeated its earlier insurance claim that it does not access the web content of any messages, but claimed it was needed to review the function to see to it that was the case, as well as has actually reduced the quantity of information it videotapes.
" This [phone call logging] methods we can appear individuals you most regularly connect with at the top of your contact listing." it discussed. "In the future, the client will just publish to our servers the info needed to supply this function-- not broader data such as the moment of phone calls."
These are all favorable actions, but are tiny convenience following the discovery that Cambridge Analytica could have in fact gathered data from 87 million Facebook users, as opposed to the 50 million originally reported.