Facebook Search by Phone Number - is It Still Working?
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Anjih Najxu
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
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This feature made it much easier for individuals to find each other in countries where many people share the same name (it comprises 7% of all searches in Bangladesh, as an example), yet in a post, Facebook clarified that crooks have "over used these attributes to scuff public account info by sending contact number or e-mail addresses they already have via search as well as account recovery".
Facebook has actually also taken steps to limit the information available to third-party apps. It's tightening the review procedure for applications that request your images and articles, and apps are no longer enabled to request sensitive data including marriage condition, religious views, education as well as work history-- the sort of information that allowed companies like Cambridge Analytica to provide precisely targeted ads to voters in the 2016 US governmental election.
Call logging
In the exact same post, Facebook confessed that its Carrier and also Facebook Lite Android applications collect users' telephone call as well as message background on an opt-in basis.
The website reiterated its earlier case that it doesn't access the content of any kind of messages, yet stated it was necessary to examine the feature to make sure that was the case, as well as has lowered the amount of details it records.
" This [phone call logging] methods we can surface the people you most often get in touch with at the top of your call listing." it clarified. "In the future, the customer will only submit to our web servers the info required to use this function-- not more comprehensive data such as the time of calls."
These are all favorable actions, however are little comfort adhering to the revelation that Cambridge Analytica could have in reality collected information from 87 million Facebook users, instead of the 50 million initially reported.