Setting up two-factor authentication is usually a recommended move to keep important accounts secure — but on Facebook, adding a phone number could impact privacy. After a tweet from a user ...

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 ...

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 ...

Access to a database reportedly containing 500 million users’ private information is being sold on a cybercrime forum. Motherboard reports that the database, which hosts data pulled from Facebook more ...

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 ...

In a devastating blow to almost 20% of Facebook’s 2.3 billion users, several unprotected databases were discovered online that contain 419 million records of Facebook users, reports TechCrunch. The ...

'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 ...

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Facebook is facing criticism for not allowing users to opt out of a feature that lets people look them up using their phone number or email address. This includes users who only added their phone ...