throwawayjay01

> On top of that, it's absurd that someone can add my phone number to their advertising platform to get my name.

Advertisers don't get any information about you from Facebook ads unless you click on an ad and tell them it yourself.

There's an interesting disconnect from pieces like this and those demanding that tech companies monitor every piece of content on their networks.

How would this work in the case of data portability? If Facebook were to be forced to provide an API that allowed users to export all of their data to a competing social network would Facebook be responsible for ensuring that the competitor was using the data responsibly?