UK network O2 allegedly giving out your phone number to every website you visit

Chris Oldroyd - tipb.com | 25/01/2012 | Comments (0)

UK network O2 appears to be submitting your telephone number to any website you visit whilst using the data connection on your phone. According to report from TNW, the information is transmitted when a user asks for a webpage view. The issue was brought to our attention to Lewis Peckover, who created a simple webpage to check the information that a mobile browser would send to a website when it requested data. Whilst most of the data was to be expected, including the Host, User Agent, Referrer and Encoding, there was also another field in the results — x-up-calling-line-id. What is …

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UK network O2 allegedly giving out your phone number to every website you visit
Chris Oldroyd – tipb.com