Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec...
by muzani on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:34AM
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Birthday is a form of identity verification too, for password reset.
Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec...
by prox on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:54AM
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None of the birthdays I enter are real. :P
Re:Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affec...
by cute_boi on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:25PM
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and no one should put real birthday lol. Birthday is mostly used for targeting ads.
This is why facebook can say to advertisers, "We mostly have young people using our service. So please put your money on our company"
And yes using account of 60-70 year old always receives less ads :D
It's not really new data, it's just scam SMS I've received in the past has never shown any sign of knowing anything other than my phone number. Now you can buy phone numbers and pull personalisation data unrestricted from your copy of Facebook's database for each of them. I'm sure sophisticated scammers already were, but now everyone will.