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Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

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[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago

It was fixed a month ago https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

No. That doesn't eliminate the need to use a phone number! It's just 'hidden'.

[-] Undertaker@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

That's not the point. It was statet that each message is associated with the number. But it isn't. The only way to achieve this in Signal is getting into your phone.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online -4 points 6 months ago

Wow you don't know how to read.

Phone numbers are still required and Signal got a lot of shit for it.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Phone numbers are still required

But are they still attached to messages?

this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024

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