Facebook asks for your phone number, but it is not possible to delete it

Facebook asks for your phone number, but it is not possible to delete it

The verification in two steps required the registration of the number, but several reports point to other different uses in Mark Zuckerberg's platform

   Security has always been a priority for social networks and they have persecuted their users to protect their accounts. For this, they have repeatedly asked for personal information, especially the mobile number, so that if the user wanted to log in from a new device, the platform sent him a message with a code to enter. Authentication of two factors.

The most insistent in recent years has been Facebook, but now a series of reports revealed by the Guardian newspaper indicate that the company of Mark Zuckerberg could have used these phone numbers for "other purposes".

  The investigation is joined by The New York Times which states that the social network allows anyone to search for a user by phone number. As explained on Twitter, Jeremy Burge, moderator of a famous page on Facebook, once entered the number can not be deleted.

"Facebook sees the telephone number as the way to unify their data sets and this type of things only gives them less credibility when it comes to providing a number," says Burge.

This procedure was launched in 2011 and as explained by the social network, it guaranteed the security of its users by having two credentials to access the profiles. Facebook ensures that users can choose the configuration and privacy of the phone number. "The setting applies to any phone number you've added to your profile and is not specific to any feature," the company tells TechCrunch.

However, many users did not know this feature. By default, the configuration allows anyone to find another one on Facebook if they have their phone number. However, the social network allows the modification to be found only by friends or friends of friends, but, yes, it is not possible to deactivate it.