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Even if you have never been registered on Facebook etc.: Facebook knows your mobile number and mail address because other people have already uploaded them. You can delete your phone number/mail address from meta's database via the following website: 16 comments
@shecantech @fomm @briankrebs Same issue. Linkedin occasionally pushes me to invite people to join LinkedIn based on such network knowledge. @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs @fomm Thanks for the link that’s really useful. I wonder if the other big tech companies have something similar  @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs it seems to work for mobiles and landlines, but refuses to allow me to select email (FF on Android)  @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs Fun fact: the mail server(s) Meta uses to send the confirmation email are in Spamhaus's Block List... @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs is this trustable? Or is it only a new way to get more emails & phone numbers? I was just about to submit my phone number when that “internal skeptical me” got a hold of my thumb. @EricBeaudry @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs I clicked on the provided link and, at least in german, it says that if you request your phone number or email to be removed, they "have to keep a copy in their blocklist" so they will not be uploaded again by another user. I wonder if thats legal? (EU?) My phone number would just change the database (maybe idk, they talk about blocklists), how can I trust them that its only used for blocking? And what if I just want them to absoulutely not have it? @EricBeaudry @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs I did this last year and tbh, I was skeptical but I knew they already had it so if submitting it this way can stop others uploading it and it being used then it was worth a try It's not like I was giving facebook any information that they hadn't already stolen from friends and colleagues  @fomm Thank you, that is immensely useful. I gave my cell number to my dentist (Lumino) a few years ago, as they insisted I could not use my land line, then found through their contractorʼs T&Cs (which I was never shown at the time) that my personal data had been sold. Itʼs a number no one outside of family and friends should have. This is a start in getting rid of it from databases.  @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs This page isn't sending me the text message required before it will remove my phone number. Just one more disservice from FB. @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs Um, ten years ago, Facebook stated that they never, ever delete anything. Deleting your account, which I did eleven years ago does nothing but de-activate the account. Nothing is deleted. Facebook said that its systems are designed in such a way that they are unable to actually delete anything, nor any mechanisms in place to enable them to determine what needed to be deleted. Deletion is not a thing at Facebook. @fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs lol if they FB didn't know it before, they will when you give it to them to find out if they have it. How would you know if it's actually been deleted? It's not like FB is the most trustworthy of businesses. |
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@fomm @jurjen_heeck @briankrebs is there one for LinkedIn? I purposely deleted my original LinkedIn account to get a fresh restart with no connections. When I created a new LinkedIn account and instructed it not to be found via email or phone, I was still located by people who had my contact info.