Please review this thread on Facebook since people can't delete their phone number this probably has something to do with the back track.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6643114437&topic=15899
Facebook reverses on sharing user addresses, phone numbers
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Facebook pulled a change to a permissions dialogue box that potentially made users' addresses and phone numbers available to app developers.
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On Tuesday, Facebook reversed a change announced on Friday to a permissions dialog box that users see when downloading third-party Facebook apps--a change that potentially makes users' addresses and phone numbers available to app developers.
The tweak was made known to developers of third-party apps Friday night, by way of a post on the Facebook Developer Blog. Basically, when a person starts downloading a third-party Facebook app, a Request for Permission dialog box appears that asks for access to basic information including the downloader's name, profile picture, gender, user ID, list of friends, and more. What's new as of Friday is an additional section that asks for access to the downloader's current address and mobile phone number.
At 2:25 a.m. Tuesday morning, a blog was posted on Facebook's Developer Blog which said:
"Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data. We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We’ll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready."
For more on this story, read the original post Facebook tweak reveals addresses, phone numbers on CNET News.
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We never did get an answer to this. Twitter was required to hand over IP addresses, login, payment details for a bunch of Twitter accounts related to Wikileaks.
We only know this because Twitter fought the secrecy requirement in the order and won. Credit to them.
So did Facebook receive a request?
Presumably all that lovely private data would have been too tempting, not to grab.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12141530
We only know this because Twitter fought the secrecy requirement in the order and won. Credit to them.
So did Facebook receive a request?
Presumably all that lovely private data would have been too tempting, not to grab.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12141530
Scary. And I have my phone number in facebook, only so they can text me status updates, but I'm not so sure now that's a good idea...!
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