Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting – TechCrunch
Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use to “look up” their profile. Worse, Facebook doesn’t give you an option to opt-out…
4 Mar 2019 ... Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to ... To view it, please update your privacy preferences. ... for user profiles using a person's phone number, which Facebook restricted last year ... to any phone numbers you added to your profile and isn't specific to any feature.”.