O2 sending mobile numbers to websites when browsing the web?

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O2 has come up nether burn down equally reports are coming through of the network sharing mobile numbers with websites when browsing the web via 3G. Whenever you connect to a website from a mobile device y'all provide information detailing what model the phone is likewise as the web browser. This data enables that website to be displayed more finer for your handset (taking into account different screen resolutions as an example).

It seems O2 is going one stride farther by providing actual phone numbers in with this information, which would unacceptable equally malicious websites could use this information to contact the user, and it would exist a breach of the Data Protection Deed. Check out the below capture of an O2 number beingness sent with the header data.

O2 Web Numbers

Twitter user @lewispeckover has set upward a webpage (seen above) that displays HTTP header information sent by the connecting device, so yous can check for yourself whether your carrier is sending your number to every website you visit. Scary stuff. We checked on Three UK and everything seems normal. Allow us know in the comments or in the WPCentral Forum's give-and-take if you try out the script (your number will be displayed afterward "x-upward-calling-line-id" if it's being sent) and can see your number displayed.

Data Protection Watchdog has since issued a statement on the situation:

"When people visit a website via their mobile phone they would not expect their number to be made bachelor to that website. We will now speak to O2 to remind them of their information breach notification obligations, and to amend understand what has happened, before we decide how to go along."

Source: Sky News, via: WPCentral Forum, Android Fundamental

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