Facebook could have your phone number and email address—even if you never handed them over to the social network. Everyone knows that Facebook collects vast amounts of data. But what many people might ...

The default setting for phone number look up is 'Everyone,' and you can only restrict access to it rather than being able to opt-out of the feature completely. Hot on the heels of the Onavo VPN fiasco ...

Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use ...

Facebook almost certainly has your phone number and email address, even if you never handed them over. That's because any friend who shared their address book with Facebook also shared your details.

Last week it was revealed that not only was Facebook affected by a massive data breach, but that it had been taking the phone numbers provided by users for two-factor authentication and using them to ...

There are tons of reasons why a Facebook user would want to completely change their primary email address associated with their social media account. Some might have a new email address, thus retiring ...

If you use two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure your Facebook account, you likely, at some point, gave Facebook your phone number. 2FA adds an almost impenetrable layer of security to your ...

There are new concerns that a Facebook feature meant solely to authenticate your identity on the social media platform could allow people to find you through your phone number. On Friday, Jeremy Burge ...

Facebook has confirmed it does in fact use phone numbers that users provided it for security purposes to also target them with ads. Specifically a phone number handed over for two factor ...

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'How do I delete my number from Facebook?' you might be asking. Though you can rid it from your profile, it's near impossible to delete it from the social network's database. The best you can do is to ...

Researchers have found that the phone number people provide to Facebook to set up two-factor authentication (2FA) and login alerts is being used by advertisers to target ads. As reported by Gizmodo, ...