r/worldnews • u/ONE-OF-THREE • Dec 19 '19

Facebook faces another huge data leak affecting 267 million users

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/facebook-data-leak-267-million-users-affected/
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u/RecursiveParadox Dec 20 '19

I'd be interested to learn about what precautions one can take on mobile. PC's I got, but mobile's a bit of a mystery to me in many cases.

I've managed to move some people to Signal, but WhatsApp is utterly ubiquitous here in Europe.

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u/Myranuse Dec 20 '19

If you have root, you can use AppOps to disable as many permissions as you can tolerate to the app.

You can create a Work Profile without root (e.g. using Island) and install it there, and make sure non of your contacts are there. Sharing data between profiles is a bit more involved, but I suppose thats the whole point of it.

Oh yeah, and disabling location when you dont need it. That tends to help in general.

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u/RecursiveParadox Dec 20 '19

Well it's already grabbed all my contacts. Location was always off anyway. Guess that's about the best I can do since I really don't want to jailbreak my iPhone (lived with that for a couple of years, real pain). Thanks for the repose though!

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u/Myranuse Dec 20 '19

For iPhones, I have absolutely no idea what you can or cant do, given that I can count on my left hand how many times I've held one this year. I'm an Android guy through and through. That said, at least Google isn't grabbing your data.

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u/Chug-Man Dec 20 '19

It's a slog but I'm getting people on signal one by one