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(09-04-2015 10:10 AM)Gmac Wrote:  

I know Roosh mentioned you shouldn't have issues with your phone number being out there but that's not quite true anymore either.

Yes guys, you should be wary. Continue reading.

It's extremely important to restrict and limit your account and privacy settings on any of your Google+ accounts (or hotmail/other) which often connect to all your gmail contacts if you have linked any gmail accounts to googleplus. Contacts can show up for anyone you have ever emailed, called, texted, IM'd, or had your number in their phone. Take a look: https://www.google.com/contacts

As has been mentioned on a few other threads, people are finding their one night stands, exes, friends, co-workers, guys they've communicated with or met from the forum, on facebook, linkedin, etc. Because the moment you correspond with someone via text or an email linked to these platforms they can see your information with the right technical knowledge or even by accident. This means it's absolutely critical to remove this information from all of these other sites. Gmail, linkedin, and facebook for example now are sending emails and notifications to people as "recommended friends" or "contacts." Even if you were the only one with their information in your phone/email, now they are "reverse matching" people. Scary stuff indeed.

Anyone with your phone number can search you on google contacts and find out your full name, school you went to, workplace, and anything else you might have listed on any google+ account linked to your phone number.

The easy way fix this this is to delete/disable your google+ account. I've done this with the account associated my personal email.

If you don't want to do that, go into the Google+ privacy settings and delete all the personal information you can and restrict access. You can leave the phone recovery option on and that won't compromise anything. You should also edit your "profile" and remove any personal information there (twitter feeds, facebook, websites, blogs, schools, workplace, placed you've lived, birthday, etc.). Trust me, it's all there out in public if you ever added any information and didn't set the proper strict privacy restrictions.

Same for facebook, linkedin, etc. Any of these applications or platforms you've entered your phone number as "profile or account information" can be traced back to you, or at the very least, have you show up in your contacts (or those who have your number or email in theirs). Linkedin has a link under "Account and Settings" called "Manage who can discover you by your phone number »" - Click that to restrict to only 1st connections (people you've already added) instead of "anyone." Even WhatsApp will pull certain information from facebook and gmail/google+ should you have that information available. You don't even have to have them added, they just need your phone number as one of their contacts.

Just be sure to always keep your personal and internet lives separate as other have mentioned and you will avoid 99.9% of these security issues.

Well, until Skynet goes live.

I have neither Google+ nor Facebook! But I've experience the Linkedin part. I didn't have an account on Linkedin for a long time. When I finally opened one a few years ago it immediately listed a few of the girls I had seen/met before as potential connections. I was dumbfound. I guess they had searched me in there.