Article GWSP Facebook urged to tighten privacy settings after harvest of user data

Facebook urged to tighten privacy settings after harvest of user data

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Josh Halliday
from Technology | The Guardian on (#GWSP)

Software developer exploits loophole to obtain thousands of names, pictures and locations of users who link their mobile phone number with account

Facebook has been urged to tighten its privacy settings after a software engineer was able to harvest data about thousands of users - simply by guessing their mobile numbers.

The developer obtained the names, profile pictures and locations of users who had linked their mobile number to their Facebook account but had chosen not to make it public.

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