Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password

Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by TeMPOraL on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:00AM (#25629037)

That's not really a privacy issue, though. That's marketing issue. That is, we let marketers destroy phones as a medium of communication. The answer to that isn't to legislate hiding your phone number. The answer to that should be to legislate this type of marketing away.

Advertising is cancer, and I'm constantly surprised by the ends to which people go to justify its continued existence.

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Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by throwaway2245 on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:11AM (#25631522)

Legislating away cold-call marketing is already done; it hasn't stopped it from happening, since it's almost impossible to trace the culprit.

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Re:Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password by TeMPOraL on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:28AM (#25632508)

US until very recently wasn't even trying. EU is, and our phones are quite usable. Things could be improved - I wish there was a way to get rid of the few marketers that find their ways to skirt the regulatory boundary. It doesn't seem impossible to achieve.

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