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+ Got any news, tips or want to contact us directly? Feel free to email us: see more posts like these please subscribe to our newsletter. While it’s been - if not clear, then at least evident - for a number of years that Facebook uses contact details of individuals who never personally provided their information for ad targeting purposes (harvesting people’s personal data by other means, such as other users’ mobile phone contact books which the Facebook app uploads), the revelation that numbers provided to Facebook by users in good faith, for the purpose of 2FA, are also, in its view, fair game for ads has not been so explicitly ‘fessed up to before.įull Article | Stay current with our live technology feed. universities who ran a study in which they say they were able to demonstrate the company uses pieces of personal information that individuals did not explicitly provide it to, nonetheless, target them with ads. Specifically a phone number handed over for two factor authentication (2FA) - a security technique that adds a second layer of authentication to help keep accounts secure.įacebook’s confession follows a story Gizmodo ran a story yesterday, related to research work carried out by academics at two U.S. Your daily selection of the hottest trending tech news!Īccording to TechCrunch ( This article and its images were originally posted on TechCrunch Septemat 11:37AM.)įacebook has confirmed it does in fact use phone numbers that users provided it for security purposes to also target them with ads.