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That actually happened https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/03/facebook-phone-number-look...

Every privacy offending feature on FB is 100% by default opt-out. This is their ethos. When you gave them your number, you gave them a way to not only permanently & consistenly identify you but also let others "discover" you/r profile aka reason for this leak. Using your number as 2FA auth is just a side bonus.

> Every privacy offending feature on FB is 100% by default opt-out

Uh, what?

To clarify: my reading of the parent posting was that "by default opt-out" meaning the user is opted-out by default, which is contrary to my understanding privacy-eroding features of Facebook are turned-on (i.e. "default to opt-in").

^ Yeah, this in its own is almost as big a scandal as the breach per se. Just what the f.