If you used the tool "synchronize contacts" on Facebook to coordinate the phonebook of your phone with your list of friends from Facebook, unknowingly provided social network world's most powerful with the phone's contact list.
The tool "synchronize contacts sync profiles of your Facebook friends with contact list of your phone. application adds Facebook profile images and other personal information to the address book of your mobile phone.
However, synchronizing personal information flows in two ways.
According to a report by the Guardian, sync contacts also loads all names and phone numbers of contacts from Facebook.
People who want to find out if the address book of their phone has been uploaded to Facebook can visit the Facebook page of contacts.
Although synchronizing contacts app warns people that their address book will load at Facebook, privacy advocates worry that the warning is formulated in such a way that most users will ignore it. If the Facebook privacy settings are not set correctly, the phone book you might accidentally made public.
[Source: The Guardian]
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