Facebook Plans to Proceed With Phone-Number Sharing Feature
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Facebook Inc. is moving forward with plans to let outside websites and applications request addresses and mobile-phone numbers from users, a feature that had prompted privacy questions from U.S. lawmakers.
The social-networking site has not determined when it will reintroduce the feature but is evaluating ways to “enhance user control,” including “potential additions to the permissions screen,” Marne Levine, Facebook vice president of global public policy, wrote in a Feb. 23 letter to U.S. representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton.