Facebook stops using phone numbers for friend suggestions - Business Insider

Facebook's database of phone numbers, collected for user account security, will no longer be fed into its 'people you may know' friend-suggestion feature.

The FTC said Facebook failed to tell users that their phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication would also be used for advertising. The government agency specifically banned that approach to security tools.Facebook will no longer feed user phone numbers provided to it for two-factor authentication into its "people you may know" feature, as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of its privacy practices, the company told Reuters.

Facebook initiated the updates in connection with its $5 billion settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which required it to boost safeguards on user data to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices. The change - which is happening in Ecuador, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Libya and Cambodia this week and will be introduced globally early next year - will prevent any phone numbers provided during sign-up for two-factor authentication from being used to make friend suggestions.

Before the latest change, Facebook conducted a review to ensure "the system updates supporting our privacy statements were done correctly," said Protti, which "adds more layers of process and rigor to the vetting of our technical work to make sure our public statements match our operations." Protti, who along with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will sign quarterly privacy certifications to the FTC, said his team has completed an assessment begun in August of Facebook's privacy risks and started cataloguing protections in place to mitigate those risks.

LMAO I don't believe donkey poop.

Yet they will continue to spy on u. Ppppp

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