Google and FB often have our phone number not because we have it to them or gave them permission of any kind, but because one of our contacts blithely uploaded their contact app database to FB. There’s no doubt they use it as a key data field as they scrap everything they can from our phones and microphones, even when the app is not in the foreground.
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Facebook - Utter contempt for its own "customers"
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Google and FB often have our phone number not because we have it to them or gave them permission of any kind, but because one of our contacts blithely uploaded their contact app database to FB. There’s no doubt they use it as a key data field as they scrap everything they can from our phones and microphones, even when the app is not in the foreground.
They also collect your data, sell and help fill up your mail box with ads for things you don’t want. God knows what else they do with your info.
The concept of Facebook, a place where you can say what ever vile thing you like anonymously with no repercussion is deranged. Theor roll in politics is dangerous.
Sharing the picture of my pet alligator with aunt Molly while strange but still benign. Controlling information flow to advance an agenda should be illegal.