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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by wasmitnetzen on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:57AM (#26711205)
Doesn't that kinda negate the goal of using a fake birth date? After all, they don't really care whether you give your real birth date, it's enough that it is the same on that other website they get your personal information from to correlate.
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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by KMnO4 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:06AM (#26711304)
I don’t care if someone leaks my fake DOB in a Dropbox hack and then tries to reset my Netflix password.

Websites that use my real DOB are usually linked to my identity, so I’m much more concerned with protecting them from, eg social engineering attacks [0].

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-15...

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Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B... by bshep on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:18AM (#26711411)
Yes this is my thought as well.
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