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Meta has created a tool that lets you check if they’ve scraped your phone number or email address from someone else’s contacts list.

It also lets you remove and block your phone number or email from their database. It’s hidden away in one of their help articles:

https://www.facebook.com/contacts/removal

Source: Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-likely-has-your-contact-info-phone-number-email-2022-10)

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Jordan Parker Erb (Insider)
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in reply to Chris Wood

IzzyOnDroid ✅
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Mental conflict: To check whether they got my PII scraped, I have to visit THEIR site and enter it? Given the history of that … err … institution (?), I shall believe that they not just save the data I entered and market/abuse it? Because, if they didn't have it yet they'd have it then. Verified by its owner.

That's the mess with opt-out and proprietary services: you can never be sure. (Not only) for data collection, opt-in should be mandatory.
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