{"id":379000,"date":"2018-09-29T05:03:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-admits-it-does-use-shadow-phone-numbers-uploaded-to-boost-account-security-to-target-ads\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T04:03:15","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-admits-it-does-use-shadow-phone-numbers-uploaded-to-boost-account-security-to-target-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-admits-it-does-use-shadow-phone-numbers-uploaded-to-boost-account-security-to-target-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook admits it DOES use \u2018shadow\u2019 phone numbers uploaded to boost account security to target ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6216545\/Facebook-admits-phone-numbers-used-target-ads.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Sept 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook has confirmed that advertisers use \u2018shadow\u2019 phone numbers to serve up targeted advertisements. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The social media giant acknowledged that it uses contact information uploaded to users\u2019 profiles for ad targeting purposes. <\/p>\n<p>It comes after a study by two US universities, first reported by Gizmodo, found that phone numbers given to Facebook for two-factor authentication were also used to generate user-targeted ads.   <\/p>\n<p>Two-factor authentication is intended to enhance security by requiring a second step, such as entering codes sent via text messages, as well as passwords to get into accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6216545\/Facebook-admits-phone-numbers-used-target-ads.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, September 28, 2018  at  5:31 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-admits-it-does-use-shadow-phone-numbers-uploaded-to-boost-account-security-to-target-ads.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-admits-it-does-use-shadow-phone-numbers-uploaded-to-boost-account-security-to-target-ads.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailSept 28, 2018 Facebook has confirmed that advertisers use \u2018shadow\u2019 phone numbers to serve up targeted advertisements. The social media giant acknowledged that it uses contact information uploaded to users\u2019 profiles for ad targeting purposes. It comes after a study by two US universities, first reported by Gizmodo, found that phone numbers given to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}