Facebook has a secret tool to delete your phone number from its database

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Facebook recently introduced a secret tool that allows your to delete your phone number and email address from its database.

On that page, you can search Meta’s database to find out whether or not the company has your phone number or email address. If it does, you can request its deletion. Meta will also add that data to its block list to prevent it from being uploaded again.

Meta will then ask if you want it to delete and block the phone number or email address from its address book database. ClickThere’s no telling how much data Meta actually has on any of it, or what this tool really does. That said, if it makes you feel better to take some control back, there’s no harm in trying. We hope to see more tools like this in the future.

 

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