Find A Facebook Friend by Phone Number - is It Still Working?
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MUFY UJASH
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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Find A Facebook Friend By Phone Number
This feature made it much easier for people to locate one another in countries where many individuals share the very same name (it makes up 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, for instance), however in a blog post, Facebook clarified that wrongdoers have "abused these attributes to scrape public profile details by submitting contact number or email addresses they currently have through search and also account healing".
Facebook has also taken actions to restrict the data readily available to third-party applications. It's tightening the review process for applications that request your images and also articles, and also apps are no longer permitted to demand sensitive information consisting of marital standing, spiritual sights, education and also work history-- the type of information that made it possible for organizations like Cambridge Analytica to deliver specifically targeted ads to voters in the 2016 US governmental election.
Call logging
In the exact same article, Facebook admitted that its Messenger and also Facebook Lite Android apps collect individuals' call and also message background on an opt-in basis.
The site stated its earlier case that it doesn't access the web content of any messages, yet claimed it was necessary to evaluate the function to ensure that was the case, and has cut down the amount of details it tapes.
" This [call logging] ways we can surface the people you most often connect with on top of your contact list." it clarified. "In the future, the customer will just publish to our web servers the details required to offer this attribute-- not broader information such as the time of phone calls."
These are all positive steps, but are little comfort following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica may have in truth gathered data from 87 million Facebook customers, as opposed to the 50 million initially reported.