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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2020 21:13:05 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Twitter needs to stop pressuring users to add their phone numbers to their profiles and stop defaulting to making those phone numbers discoverable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/how-twitters-default-settings-can-leak-your-phone-number
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1. How Twitter's Default Settings Can Leak Your Phone Number
  
  from Gennie Gebhart
  
  Twitter has publicly disclosed a security “incident” that points to long-standing problems with how the service handles phone numbers. Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were uploading large numbers of phone numbers and using tools in Twitter’s...
- resist1984@social.privacytools.io's status on Monday, 30-Mar-2020 21:13:05 UTC resist1984
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  @eff yes, and EFF also needs to stop calling their TWTR feed "official" & their #Mastodon feed "unofficial". EFF should not even mention their TWTR feed outside of TWTR. Send website visitors to Mastodon instead.
  
  In conversation about 10 months ago permalink
  
  aab and aab like this.

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