- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:39:44 +1000
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: public-privacy@w3.org
On Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 18:36, Karl Dubost wrote: > > If you have been living under a rock for the last 24h (like me at Tracking Protection WG F2F ;) ), this news [1] is quite impressive. > > > If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions > of subscribers to mobile operator O2, you may be alarmed > to learn that the carrier is sending your mobile number > to every website you visit on your mobile phone. > — [1] > > > In your HTTP headers, there is a "x-up-calling-line-id" header with the phone number. :) > > > [1]: http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/01/25/uk-mobile-operator-o2-sends-your-phone-number-to-every-website-you-visit/ > My favourite bit: "The mobile number in the HTML is linked to how the site determines that your browsing from a mobile device #O2Guru" Obviously very competent and knowledgeable people work there and/or they just think their customers are idiots :) -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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