9.08.2019

Everybody knows your name (also phone number and probably other stuff)

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users' phone numbers exposed

"The unanswered question remains: regardless of whether Facebook's claim that "the future is private" is believable or not, is it actually too late for Facebook to repair the damage already done?"


Of course, phone books. For landlines at least it's been possible to match names and phone numbers for a very long time. What's different here is the universality of it all, and speed. What used to take a very long time and lots of money can now be done free in a flash. 

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