Facebook’s phone number scandal
August 15, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Facebook refuted claims Thursday that it makes public the phone numbers stored on users’ cellphones, shooting down a rumor that had spread online earlier in the week.
The privacy concern stems from a feature on Facebook’s mobile application, which lets users sync their smartphone contacts with their contacts on the social networking site. What many users apparently did not realize is that the site also uploads all the phone numbers from their cellphone to a special phone book page on their Facebook accounts.
The feature itself is nothing new: When Facebook launched the page several years ago, it originally just collected all the phone numbers your friends posted to their own profiles and listed them in one place. More recently, the site added contacts from your cellphone to the list if you chose to sync with Facebook, effectively creating a more comprehensive digital address book.
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