Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it.

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Facebook's parent firm Meta has quietly rolled out a new service that lets people check whether the firm holds their contact information, such as their phone number or email address, and delete and block it.

The tool has been available since May 2022, Insider understands, although Meta does not seem to have said anything publicly about it.

A tipster pointed us to the tool, which is well-hidden and apparently only available via a link that is embedded 780 words into a fairly obscure page in Facebook's help section for non-users. The linked text gives no indication that it's sending you to a privacy tool, and simply reads: "Click here if you have a question about the rights you may have."

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Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it.

Meta's apps have almost 3 billion daily users. It's scooped up unknown numbers of email addresses and phone numbers for people who never signed up.

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More here:

Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it.

Meta's apps have almost 3 billion daily users. It's scooped up unknown numbers of email addresses and phone numbers for people who never signed up.

www.businessinsider.com

I'm going to bookmark that one. Just found my number in there, even though I never gave it.

 

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They didn't have mine but I had to give them my number to check if they had it

 

[Moonhorse]

Alright i just removed my number from there & also blocked it from being used , thanks!!

 

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Alright i just removed my number from there & also blocked it from being used , thanks!!

Glad it helped!

 

[Stopspying]

Glad it helped!

Thanks. I've never had a Fakebook a/c using my mobile number yet it was there. I was really dubious about giving it to them to check if it was there, as I had never supplied it to them as I've never had any of their products linked to this number, it just shows how thorough their data scraping goes. I now hope (nearly typed 'trust' but that word doesn't compute when linked to *uckerburg) that they will actually delete the number

 

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I now hope (nearly typed 'trust' but that word doesn't compute when linked to *uckerburg) that they will actually delete the number

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