Facebook to Stop Using Phone Numbers for Recommending Friends
Facebook to Stop Using Phone Numbers for Recommending Friends Social media giant Facebook will soon stop using its users’ phone numbers to recommend friends to them. The move comes following the company’s$5 billion settlementwith the US Federal Trade Commission earlier this year, and will see the company cut back on practices that raised a number of privacy concerns around the company. The company had started asking for users’ phone numbers in order to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts to ensure higher security and for preventing hackers from gaining access to user accounts on the platform....