Comments on: Privacy Fail: How Facebook Steals Your Friends Phone Numbers

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By: Themike86

Themike86 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:07:00 +0000

My Android based phone pulls phone numbers from Facebook… within thirty seconds of setting up Facebook on my phone, my phone’s address book was full of numbers and pictures for all my Facebook friends who have numbers listed. The same thing that’s supposedly a ToS violation. What the…?
For what it’s worth, I don’t see the problem with that particular transfer – it’s just populating my address book with data I could get by clicking onto their profile anyway – including from my phone – so what’s it matter? It’s actually incredibly convenient. Why Facebook now apparently forbids this while allowing it to happen the other way, which is a VERY different matter, is beyond me.

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By: Cosmic-antidust

Cosmic-antidust — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:51:00 +0000

Hi, I think I was about to sync my phone calendar via a hosted server, but then wondered – what actually is sync-ing doing? Am I permitting so much? Thanks

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By: Vanilla

Vanilla — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:18:00 +0000

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By: Vanilla

Vanilla — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:16:00 +0000

HI, I registered a facebook account and the next day when i went to logg in to look around It was asking me for my phone number so it could verify my account as they had locked me out. I didnt want too but i gave them my phone number as i was reading on line and was under the impression that this was their new security measures. ANYWAY….. i finally get back into my account and i see one of my friends profile photo under ” you might know this person” tab or something like that….on the right hand side.NOW i have not told anyone that i am on facebook, I have no friends added to my facebook account…so no one could have been linked…..how on earth did facebook know that this was MY friend? the only way was via my phone number that I had given facebook to verify my account. They must have scanned the numbers and matched it with her facebook account or something……. NOW i think this is an invasion of privacy!

By: Ishtehburgermeister

Ishtehburgermeister — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:33:00 +0000

Very well spoken sir. Now, this calls for a lawsuit! Or an angry mob, or a conspiracy forum, depending on which I decide sounds more fun overall. I’m gonna send this page to people I know, probably. Have a good one.

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By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:29:00 +0000

OK Ken so my can MY sister see MY friends who are not on FB? why are MY contacts VISIBLE to HER? she called out a list of people I know who she doesn’t know with their numbers. Oh and I didn’t get any screen alert I don’t have an IPhone. I’m not too sure whether FB know that they have published other peoples contacts on other peoples contacts list? I would be mortified if someone called up my granny because they found her number on their contacts list and so would she!

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 06:38:00 +0000

this is a crock of doo doo. what you are looking at [your phonebook] is a list of numbers for YOUR friends. its in YOUR accounts area -and thus NOT VISIBLE to anyone else but YOU .. or a hacker. [always possible - and not FB's fault per se].

FB sync from a fone gives a full screen alert that you must agree to – that tells you EXACTLY what it’s doing and asks you to agree or NOT. http://bit.ly/pdQ3s6 try it … it wont post anything either way without you agreeing. If your number is in your profile and you’ve not set your security preferences to hide it then it will be displayed as per these settings. If you don’t want information available DONT PUT IT IN YOUR PROFILE! it’s easy!
I’m no big fan of Zuckerberg and Co but they give you a sensational social networking tool for FREE. It’s idiocy IMHO to suggest that FB are going to do seriously dodgy things with private data. They need us to like them. Imagine if they were exposed like the News of the World lot??? how many ppl would lose their jobs – and Zuckerberg and Co would lose billions off their asset. If you’re concerned about security – it’s easy : don’t put anything online that you don’t want shared. The internet is a vast UNSECURED network. This isn’t Facebook’s fault. They’ve even enabled SSL unlike most other SN portals. (look it up if you don’t know where its enabled) Their biggest mistake is perhaps to make FB quite customisable [which creates complexity which is clearly confusing most of you here].

By: Laur

Laur — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:21:00 +0000

Same with me. I’ve deleted the FB app from my iPhone, and still the contact information is on FB. I just selected the “remove” choice at the FB site.

By: Billy Kovalsky

Billy Kovalsky — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:10:00 +0000

Hello all.
I have the same problem with my Iphone contacts going public on FB.
Ive made sure the Sync option is disabled on my phone, and asked FB to delete all my contacts from the site (even got a mail from FB saying: “As you requested, your imported contacts have been removed…”). But still all my friend can see all of my contacts!

Does anyone know how to disable that and make sure my contacts are deleted from my friends list?

Thanks.
Billy.

By: Smhanne

Smhanne — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:44:00 +0000

I deleted the FB app and go to FB via my browser directly. That has STOPPED all syncing from my very personal PRIVATE DATA up to their (FB) databank.

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By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:10:00 +0000

you are wrong. Just the opposite. Privacy is important to most people

By: Yaneverknow8

Yaneverknow8 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:07:00 +0000

this is a ridiculous comment. You must work for facebook. I personally never chose to upload my address book to facebook, and never installed the app, it was done at the carrier store. I have a BlackBerry and there is no visible sync feature. IPhone apparently has one, BB does not. I have never seen anything that reads ‘facebook will have access to your contact list’. Are you kidding? This is so not a useful feature..why would I need all my contacts who are not facebook friends to be listed on facebook? Silly, I can’t even believe I’m commenting…

By: Felicity

Felicity — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:49:00 +0000

Thank you Padge, I have been messing with the settings in my BB for hours trying to get my contact numbers out of FB

and solved the problem in seconds with your advise

By: Robert Tyson

Robert Tyson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:08:00 +0000

I havea BB torch and have just installed the latest version of FB. I was not asked to sync contacts at all and ws not asked to upload aything but when I checkedall my contacts were uploded i have complained to FB about this but doubt I will get a response I have removed the contacts but they shoud have asked first!

By: YOUNGGENUS

YOUNGGENUS — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

Facebook as been doing this for a while now ive posted this on my fb wall over and over few took attention to it
Frankly Fb is wrong and until someone takes them to court they are not gonna remove the app.
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By: Deyo06

Deyo06 — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:39:00 +0000

My iPhone sync in the Facebook app wasn’t even enabled and it still picked up numbers for my contacts. How is that even possible?

By: Srmaddox

Srmaddox — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:55:00 +0000

This is stupid.

(1) Just as in gmail, IF you choose to upload your contacts to Facebook, you ARE making the decision to upload other people’s phone numbers to Facebook…so, you’re making the decision about THEIR number anyways.

(2) When installing the Facebook app (or enabling any mobile features), you are explicitly warned of what data Facebook will have access to. So you do get to choose, even if you might have to avoid using the Facebook app to avoid FB ever having your numbers.

(3) Once they DO have your contact list, you can opt out.

So, ultimately, all Facebook did was allow you to chose to upload data you already know for your own personal use on Facebook’s website. Out of all the privacy issues i’ve seen Facebook go through, and all the mistakes they’ve made, this is by far the stupidest one to complain about. Are you going to go around and complain that people can make google aware of your friends’ phone numbers?

Maybe Facebook’s interface has always sucked – but if you ARE that worried about Facebook having your phone numbers, you should probably READ the part that says “Facebook will have access to your contact list” when you install the app.

Fact is, if you missed that little notice when you installed the app, the only reason you KNEW they had access was because of the new feature. An unscrupulous programmer could have just put that permission in and datamined everyone’s contacts and never actually used it to implement a useful feature, and few people would have ever even asked why FB needed their contact list.

By: Halfling Scout

Halfling Scout — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:53:00 +0000

I dont have a smart phone nor have i ever synced my phone with FB: how could I? Yet I have a Phone Contact List on FB?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:44:00 +0000

You gave us a one time answer, but does this prevent your contacts from continually being synched by facebook? I have a Blackberry and need to know how to de-synch it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:41:00 +0000

You stated the problem but you didn’t give an answer how to get rid of it. I have a Blackberry and I want to eliminate this. HOW?

By: BikeFreak

BikeFreak — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:53:00 +0000

I think FB accessed it via your smartphone. It accessed mine when I was using my blackberry.