It’s no secret that Facebook doesn’t respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company  used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you. Last week, Emojipedia’s Jeremy Burge highlighted in a tweet that if the social network has your number, it allows everyone on its platform to look you up with it by default – and you can’t turn that off. That’s just all kinds of shitty, as security researcher and New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci pointed out: Yep. I can no longer keep keep private the phone…

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