Facebook could have your phone number and email address—even if you never handed them over to the social network. Everyone knows that Facebook collects vast amounts of data. But what many people might ...

Facebook almost certainly has your phone number and email address, even if you never handed them over. That's because any friend who shared their address book with Facebook also shared your details.

Setting up two-factor authentication is usually a recommended move to keep important accounts secure — but on Facebook, adding a phone number could impact privacy. After a tweet from a user ...

Access to a database reportedly containing 500 million users’ private information is being sold on a cybercrime forum. Motherboard reports that the database, which hosts data pulled from Facebook more ...

The app and its brethren harvest data about non-users through their friends' contact lists. Here's how to extract and eliminate yours. Reading time 2 minutes When you sign up for Facebook, Instagram, ...

It’s time to stop giving out your real phone number around the web. If you can avoid it, don’t link your phone number to your various online accounts, because if ...

There are tons of reasons why a Facebook user would want to completely change their primary email address associated with their social media account. Some might have a new email address, thus retiring ...

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