Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.
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Facebook criticised for misuse of phone numbers provided for security
Facebook admits it’s using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can’t turn it off.
How to protect your Facebook account: a walkthrough
We walk you through the important settings you can change and behaviors you can implement to lock down your privacy on Facebook.
Younger Facebook users 4 times more likely to delete app, study shows
They also appear to be more privacy-wary, with 64% changing their settings, comparing to just a third of older users.
Facebook accidentally unblocks people
It’s fixed now, thankfully: be it airheads who post baloney or stalkers, all blocked users deserve to STAY blocked.
Facebook gave certain companies special access to customer data
What do Mail.ru, Nissan, Spotify, and Nike have in common? They were all afforded temporary extensions to access private Facebook data API.
Facebook battles tiny startup over privacy accusations
Is there no end to Facebook’s petty humiliations? It is now the turn of an obscure startup called Six4Three to cause the company trouble.
Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted
Facebook’s blamed a bug. Let’s wait and see what other critters crawl out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!
Firefox add-on limits Facebook’s tracking of you
Firefox’s Facebook Container extension keeps your Facebook data, well, contained.
Dad sues Facebook after 11-year-old shared photos and messages with men
The father of a young girl has sued Facebook for failing to enforce its age restriction policy after claiming his daughter was exposed to sexual predators when she signed up for an account at age 11.