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I meant I don't give it to companies, because I know that's why they want it.
How about exactly how it's fucking written? Without making shit up? Do you think you can do that?
If you have given it to a person who has any account anywhere that has anything remotely to do with meta-owned entities, and they did not explicitly say no to sharing contacts info (basically just one person giving FB messenger access to their phone contacts), then meta has your phone number, name and a whole bunch of scarily accurate extrapolated data on you and other sources they correlate that with.
They might have my name and number. They don't have anything to connect that information to, because I don't give it.
they have. they are mapping your social graph and with that the places you are possibly frequenting
They haven't.
living in denial does not help mutch.
Agreed