Facebook Pauses Phone, Address Sharing

You can breathe easier: Facebook won’t be sharing your phone numbers and addresses with third-party applications—at least, not just yet. After the company’s announcement of the new feature generated yet another privacy uproar, a director wrote on Facebook’s developer blog that it will put the feature on hold. They are working on ways to “make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data” and ensure that “you only share this information when you intend to do so” before re-launching the feature, he writes.
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