Facebook Can Use Phone Numbers For Targeted Advertising
Common sense suggests that you should not be posting on Facebook what you do not want the world to know.
Common sense also suggests that using Facebook isn't free and that the content and information you post on Facebook will be considered for monetization. So, this should not be too surprising.
While Facebook denied that it is directly selling phone numbers to advertisers, and is using the phone numbers only for security reasons, it only said half the truth in a move that is best described as don't ask, don't tell. An entry posted to the Facebook developer pages provides some information that phone numbers are, in fact, used for custom audience targeting. According to the post, phone numbers and email addressed can be leveraged, provided they already generated this data, either from within Facebook or through other means.
Advertisers will have to hash the data to target specific audiences and avoid scatter shooting to make their advertising more effective. Facebook claims that it does sync phone numbers, but it does report a number of hits, albeit not a list of user names.
If you guard your privacy on Facebook with reasonable measures anyway, you may already have questioned the reasons for providing a phone number to the social network already. However, for those who do not and may not be overly cautious, Facebook can certainly be accused of not be entirely open about the phone number issue.
Well it seems Google has actually been quite trustworthy, Facebook has been exposed time and time again. Google already has targeted advertising through its search engine and other sites but they aren't the same greedy company others such as Facebook are.
Well it seems Google has actually been quite trustworthy, Facebook has been exposed time and time again. Google already has targeted advertising through its search engine and other sites but they aren't the same greedy company others such as Facebook are.
I have always been computer savvy since 1995 and I wake up every morning thanking the Cosmos that I didn't end up becoming a Facebook and/or Twitter zombie.
Guess what? You feel like deleting your account? Well since 2011 you can close, ban, delete all you want, but you will ALWAYS leave some kind of 'print'.
Welp, have fun getting identified.. time for me to lurk back into anonymity shadows see ya! ^_^
Yeah, well, so is an iPhone.
Your IP can be traced to where you live.
Have fun digesting that bit of info.
Really, where did that come from. Bad troll, bad!
The Petraus investigation showed how well disposable email accounts worked, they compared IP addresses, travel histories, and hotel records to get names to tie to the accounts.
I've got one acronym for you: TOR
Also, in general people should take it for granted in this day and age that almost anything they put online is not truly secure or private, and should take due precautions.
I hope you'll never want to own any domains then. Whois tools don't care about TOR.
TOR is not a fix all, sadly. As you said, almost anything you put online is not truly secure and or private, this includes TOR, proxys, etc. If someone really wants to find you that bad, they will. Taking precautions will help tho.
Just think about what you are putting on the internet before you post/upload/download and you should be better off than just using TOR alone.
Wear silver foil hats much?
My main us in FB is trolling my friends, posting funny pics to make them laught, and writing to stay in somewhat of a contact with distant friends.
Cant see any more use for that page
Because facebook pesters users for it. And to the people who are naturally worried about stalking, facebook reassures the humber will be used only for account verification in case of a hack. I remember several occasions where facebook pestered me enough for me to give them the work mobile just to get rid of the notice.
But what I can say is that the other account that got no phone number from me got deactivated... they said because it was not a real person. I would say 'who cares?' but I was actually pissed about it. I actually used that to check if my privacy settings took place or were publicly visible. I don't want clicking 'like' on a 9gag post with some funny but maybe sexist joke, and have my boss see it on my timeline or on his feed. So, checking it via the alternative account was useful. But facebook decided that no phone meant I was to be booted.