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by franole 3586 days ago
It's really sad how we lost control of our data.

I always refused to inform my phone number to facebook. But they definitely try to guess it . It's funny how sometimes the FB app ask me "is xxxx xxxx your number?" Well, luckily it still has not succeeded.

Once, I grabbed one of those guessed numbers and asked (over SMS) to that unknown person what was his name. It was no surprise when he told me that we have the same name and our surname started with the same letter.

I think now they will stop guessing.

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It just gave you a random valid phone number, along with a name (yours)? Doesn't that qualify as leaking PII?