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There are obvious reasons that you don 't go your phone number scribble on toilet walls or distribute your numbers willy-nilly. In theory, only the people you care about a conversation you have your phone number. If that 's the case, you are worred on Facebook harvesting your contact information? The social networking site under fire for collecting not only your phone number to come, as well as numbers stored in your phone.

Fox News says it 'sa statement making the rounds on Facebook warning users of what' s happening with your phone and contacts list. The fear is that Facebook collects these figures, even if you 've never given permission to the site. Don 't believe, says Facebook.

"Rumors say that your contacts are visible for everyone on Facebook, are wrong. Our list of contacts, the former is as a phone book for a long time there," written on her Facebook site. "The phone numbers listed were either added by your friends and even made visible to you, or your phone before you sync contacts with Facebook. They just want to your cell phone can only see these numbers."

You can see what some privacy advocates up in arms by Account in the upper right corner, Edit Friends And then Contact In the left pane. Facebook describes it as "like a phone book that can only see you," and at least one security expert says it 's to your advantage to synchronize information from the phone, so you can easily find friends and connect with them . At the same time, there 's some concerns with Facebook access to all this data.

"In a way, Facebook tried to be very helpful," Don DeBolt, director of threat research for Total Defense, told Fox News. "But how exactly do they use this information isn 't exactly clear. We don' t know how our data is used, we know, don 't, as our data will be turned into money."

If nothing else, Debolt says should be considered as \ serve "wake-up call" for parents of teenagers who use the service and have a mobile phone.