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 contact-deletion toolFiguring out the benefits of doing any of this requires a bit of intellectual reverse-engineering. A primary benefit is privacy and the knowledge your data won't contribute to the opaque power of Facebook algorithms, such as itsIt also gives more control to people whose data has been directly affected. Up until now, Meta only allowed users who had uploaded their contacts' data to delete that information.
Burns says she has never signed up for a Meta-owned service but found, on trying Meta's new privacy tool, that her email addresses and phone number had been picked up by the company."It's all in there, even though I've never had an account," she said."I don't believe anybody uploaded my data to Facebook in a malicious manner, I'm just in someone's address book.
Meta declined to answer questions from Insider about why it has rolled out this new tool, and why this year.Both Burns and Eerke Boiten, professor of cybersecurity at De Montfort University, speculated that the motivation could be political or legal as regulatory scrutiny of the major tech firms increases.
"Having the possibility to delist your number from Facebook in a way that it can't be used by Facebook to make friend suggestions would be an argument that 'OK, we can do this safely,'" said Boiten."It wouldn't be very transparent ... the friend-suggestions algorithm is one of the least transparent of all, so it would be difficult to establish in any way that delisting a phone number would make an impact.
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