Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ...
by jowiar on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:41PM
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Recent search history is accessible in the UI when you click on the search box. Assuming someone could see "what FB looks like from your perspective", they'd be able to access the last dozen-or-so searches.
The app piggybacking and the initial "View As" stories constituted Facebook handing out data sloppily. But location records, search history, and TFA-only phone numbers are internally held data Facebook wasn't showing to anyone. This moves things from "faulty visibility settings" and "shady data sales", which we've seen before, to "outright security breach".