SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook launches a new interesting feature for its usersacross the World.
Facebook Inc will no longer feed user phone numbers provided to it fortwo-factor authentication into its “people you may know” feature, as partof a wide-ranging overhaul of its privacy practices, the company toldReuters.
Revelations last year that Facebook was using personal data obtained fortwo-factor authentication to serve advertisements enraged privacyadvocates, who called the practice deceptive and said it eroded trust in anessential digital security tool.
It had already stopped allowing those phone numbers to be used foradvertising purposes in June, the company said, and is now beginning toextend that separation to friend suggestions.
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Facebook initiated the updates in connection with its $5 billion settlementwith the US Federal Trade Commission, which required it to boost safeguardson user data to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices.
