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Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers

Posted by timothy on from the 1600-pennsylvania-avenue-should-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you really want third-party app developers on Facebook to be able to access your mobile phone number and home address? Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users. Security firm Sophos describes it as 'a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users' and advises users to remove their home address and phone numbers from the network immediately."

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  1. Message from Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear users:

    Fuck you.

    Cordially,
    Mark Zuckerberg

    1. Re:Message from Facebook by madprof · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's OK. I'm on Facebook but only for social purposes. So arguably even less important than LinkedIn.

    2. Re:Message from Facebook by headLITE · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm on Facebook for Farmville purposes. I'm in real life for social and professional purposes.

  2. Sophos: "New level of danger for Facebook users" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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  3. Re:why stop at addresses and phone numbers? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is this modded funny?

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    Palm trees and 8
  4. Re:An even better option... by wgoodman · · Score: 4, Funny

    My current city: Constantinople.
    But I'm from Istanbul.

    They can use all of my info they want to, it's all lies.

  5. Can't delete the account: becomes inactive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    All you can do is create another throw-away eMail address, move yout FaceBook to that throw-away eMail address, change the registration information of FaceBook Registration to match that throw-away eMail address, then un-register. Here's the kicker: let the throw-away eMail address expire, then go to FaceBook to pretend to be an Arab trying to recover that throw-away eMail address and FaceBook Account because it's on your throw-away eMail address that was picked-up by your fictitious Arab. Then the Arab contacts FaceBook to get a restraining order against your real name from ever being confused as your real name; get one of those prepaid Visa Vanilla Debit Cards to order some cheap cornmash and goats from some Tack and Feed shop deliverable to some Congressman in Washington DC courtesy of the Arab that wants you dead for trying to register him on his behalf. Maybe you can even pretend some of your College Debt was actually from the Arab, so make sure he gets a bus ticket to Mexico that FaceBook tracks him as leaving the country. And finally, you can feel vindicated that the albino Arab closes the account...or else he'll slash your tires, not you!