Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B...
by gmargari on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:45AM
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Would you mind elaborating on how you "scrubbed" information from your fb account? It's been years since I closed my account but I know (e.g. see this article) this is not enough, so I consider reenabling it only to delete all my info, and then finally (?) deleting it.
Re:The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I B...
by magsnus on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:56AM
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I deleted everything, going through every page and my whole timeline etc pressing delete on everything. I considered changing my number etc. to nonsense and wait a week and the delete it but I figured facebook are probably versioning that stuff anyway.
Right now my profile picture is a plastic duck, there are no photos and no information apart from my name and my throwaway-email adress (which I hope is hidden from the world via settings).
There is also a "privacy page" there where you can check what information they have saved about you and if you forgot to delete something. I would probably have done it this way first if I where to delete my FB-account but for now I need messenger.
If you are running firefox you should also install "facebook container" even if you don't have an account. :)
But I have a similar, but unrelated to FB, problem in that every month I get an offer to work as a nurse in Norway from different agencies. I figured they scraped some "find the number"-site here in Sweden long ago and since my mothers name was on my bill I guess my number somehow came up under her name.
It's been annoying for years but since my mother had a some (non-corona) medical problems last year it has been downright infuriating at times. Anyone know how to make it stop when there is a bunch of different agencies messaging you?