<story><title>The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x_rs</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s not forget the notable case of Twitter &amp;quot;accidentally&amp;quot; using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it.&lt;p&gt;[0]. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;twitter-uninentionally-uses-your-2fa-number-targeted-advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;twitter-uninentionally...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>durnygbur</author><text>Every time Facebook&amp;#x2F;Gmail&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;Amazon&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn&amp;#x2F;Tinder&amp;#x2F;whoever asks me to give them phone number &amp;quot;just in case&amp;quot; my first and only thought is &amp;quot;hell no&amp;quot;. I haven&amp;#x27;t been wrong a single time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Twitter also had staff who leaked Twitter account PII from the Twitter DB to spies from the Saudi government, who have a habit of killing journalists from time to time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;alexkantrowitz&amp;#x2F;how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;alexkantrowitz&amp;#x2F;how-saud...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Collecting this data is an accident (or murder?) waiting to happen.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x_rs</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s not forget the notable case of Twitter &amp;quot;accidentally&amp;quot; using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it.&lt;p&gt;[0]. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;twitter-uninentionally-uses-your-2fa-number-targeted-advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;deeplinks&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;twitter-uninentionally...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>durnygbur</author><text>Every time Facebook&amp;#x2F;Gmail&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;Amazon&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn&amp;#x2F;Tinder&amp;#x2F;whoever asks me to give them phone number &amp;quot;just in case&amp;quot; my first and only thought is &amp;quot;hell no&amp;quot;. I haven&amp;#x27;t been wrong a single time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johndough</author><text>Twitter is especially silly in that regard. The info page on why my account was banned implied that one of my tweets violated the community guidelines - although I never tweeted anything.&lt;p&gt;Even more frustratingly, there is a form to appeal a ban. After filling out that form, I got a confirmation mail stating that Twitter will &amp;quot;respond as soon as possible&amp;quot;, or in other words, never.&lt;p&gt;I do not understand why they bothered to implement all that hijinks to waste my time. Simply disallowing signups without phone number would have been much simpler and less dishonest.</text></comment>