Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by coralreef on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @04:20AM (#6994637)

Hmm, I somewhat disagree. Private information is anything you don't want public. By protocol, it isn't strictly private. But a phone number is private/unknown until its known, which is how most of us prefer it.

For example, in implicit social code it is impolite to give away a friend's phone number without asking them first.

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Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by rietta on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @09:43AM (#6995081)

The gray area for that is sharing a business phone number of your friend that they share widely through business cards or their website. Though typically it ends up being an email introduction if you really care to connect someone with your friend.

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Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by TylerE on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @12:38PM (#6995608)

Seriously? Ever heard of whitepages.com?

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Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by coralreef on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @04:42PM (#6996861)

I don't think whitepages has every name and phone number ever created

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Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by 21echoes on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @09:15PM (#6997817)

neither does snapchat

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Re:Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked by coralreef on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:03AM (#6998295)

Yeah, but snapchat isn't suppose to give your number out.

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