The next thing to do would be to wait for them to swap the defaults and make it ...

yason on Jan 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Th...

The next thing to do would be to wait for them to swap the defaults and make it so that you have to specifically opt-out of the scheme, or have your contact information casually shared with a set of third parties. Then we could scream for privacy and spread instructions on how to disable that using this week's user interface to the privacy settings.

loewenskind on Jan 17, 2011 [–]

Yes, this is exactly the danger here and something Facebook has done to its users several times already.