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Grappling with O2’s phone number leaks

As O2 customers are getting riled up over news that the U.K. network has been sharing your mobile number with Web sites you visit from your phone, a security expert reckons networks leaking your information is nothing new. Sophos’ Graham Cluley cites a paper presented in 2010 by Berlin student Collin Mulliner entitled “Privacy Leaks in Mobile Phone Internet Access.” …

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O2 apparently shares your phone number with sites you visit

Update: O2 claims to have fixed the issue — and indeed, two O2 phones we’ve tested are no longer displaying their numbers on the test site. Read more about O2’s response here. Original story follows: O2 is in boiling hot water today — it looks as though the mobile network has been sending your mobile number to every site you …

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