Reply to post: Re: So Facebook are actually in the right here, for once

Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs

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Anonymous Coward

Re: So Facebook are actually in the right here, for once

There'll be a lot of Facebook-bashing since this is The Reg but this is actually one instance where I'm on their side.

Really? Here is a question for you:

How did this person have open access to that dataset in the first place?

Either FB's security sucks, or they provided this data willingly without ensuring any controls. Whatever way you turn this, it starts with Facebook.

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