I just logged in to Facebook for the first time in years to check the data it has on me. Luckily I never added my phone number or address, so should hopefully be in the clear.
My wife's number isn't in there, either. I'm just really surprised, because I checked facebook the other day and it said I was searchable by email and phone number.
I even searched my email address, and a lot of other breaches show, but not Facebook.
I guess I got lucky?
Thanks!
Looks like its worked here.
When I make a Facebook account, usually for my living complex's community or a bunch of Gen-Xer's doing a burning man thing, I use a new email or new phone number for signup and one time passwords.
I don't let it get access to my contacts, assuming I inadvertently installed the Facebook app on a phone.
Doesn't look like they meaningfully go deeper than that.
I find the social graph to be very fungible, so if I really ever want to recreate it I can just add my phone number or give any app access to my contacts. This knowledge also lets me not be married to any of these services.
I'm very content downloading the account data and then deleting the account.
Obviously, the platform has radically changed since then, but they have gotten a lot of mileage out of the illusion that you could freely share what you wanted because the only people who were going to see it were people who already knew you anyway, which was at least somewhat true at first.
In fact Facebook used to show creepy suggestions when such cross-pollination of data occured, like “Click here to confirm that XXXXXX is your phone number!”, but they stopped doing that a few years ago.