How to remove your phone number or email from Facebook, even if you have no account
..Facebook’s parent company Meta may have information, such as the email address or phone number, of users who never signed up for the service (uploaded by a Meta user).
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, published a tool in mid-2022 to remove personal information from the site and have it blocked. Meta did not announce the tool and it is not widely known. MSN reports that it is only found as a link on a support page for “people who don’t use Meta Products”.
The link, which you may access here directly, works for Facebook users and people who do not have an account at the site. It is a lookup tool that requires that users enter their email address or phone number. Some may not want to do provide Facebook with the information in first place, especially since there is no information on the page about data processing.
“What contact info would you like us to look for?
Someone may have uploaded their address book to Facebook, Messenger or Instagram with your contact information in it. You can ask us to confirm whether we have your phone number or email address.
If we do, you can request that we delete it from our address book database. To prevent it from being uploaded to this database again through someone’s address book, we need to keep a copy in our block list.
If you’d like us to delete and block more than one type of contact information, we need to confirm each separately.”…
