Hey Feds, Facebook Still Wants Phonebook
Facebook still plans to resume sharing of people's phone numbers and addresses, but hasn't decided when or how to do it, according to the company's latest response to the co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Privacy Caucus.
Facebook still plans to reinstate the sharing of people’s phone numbers and addresses, but hasn’t decided when or how to do it.
So says the company’s formal response to the co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Privacy Caucus’ 11 queries about oversharing user information on the social network.
Facebook’s Vice President of Global Public Policy Marne Levine wrote a seven-page letter dated February 23, showing that it’s not a matter of whether but when and how the company will resume sharing addresses and phone numbers with third-party developers:
We have not yet decided when or in what manner we will re-deploy the permission for mobile numbers and addresses.
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