[sapski]

the latter, see https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...

[nano81]

Not true, you could only search for accounts using phone numbers people had entered themselves

[Lewton]

But your phone number would still be in facebooks database...

[nano81]

This article is not about facebook’s database it’s about phone numbers scraped through search which ended up in a third party database

[kuu]

"numbers scraped" from Facebook's database. Of course this is about Facebook's database