Facebook Friends by Phone Number - is It Still Working?
By
Arif Rahman
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
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This function made it simpler for individuals to locate each other in countries where many individuals share the very same name (it makes up 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, for example), but in an article, Facebook explained that offenders have "abused these functions to scrape public profile info by sending phone numbers or e-mail addresses they currently have via search and also account recuperation".
Facebook has actually likewise taken actions to limit the data available to third-party applications. It's tightening up the evaluation process for apps that request your pictures as well as messages, and also applications are no longer enabled to request delicate data including marriage standing, spiritual views, education and learning and also work history-- the sort of information that allowed organizations like Cambridge Analytica to supply precisely targeted advertisements to voters in the 2016 United States presidential political election.
Call logging
In the exact same post, Facebook admitted that its Carrier as well as Facebook Lite Android apps gather individuals' call and message background on an opt-in basis.
The site repeated its earlier case that it does not access the web content of any kind of messages, yet stated it was needed to examine the function to make certain that was the case, as well as has actually cut down the amount of details it tape-records.
" This [telephone call logging] ways we can emerge individuals you most often get in touch with at the top of your contact checklist." it discussed. "In the future, the client will only submit to our servers the info required to supply this attribute-- not broader information such as the moment of calls."
These are all positive steps, yet are tiny convenience following the discovery that Cambridge Analytica may have in fact harvested information from 87 million Facebook customers, as opposed to the 50 million originally reported.