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O2 Fixes 'Accidental' Leak of Phone Numbers

Posted by timothy on from the take-this-leak-and-shove-it dept.

judgecorp writes "British mobile operator O2 says it has stopped sharing users phone numbers with all websites, and says the breach was an accident. Yesterday, users found that the operator was automatically passing their mobile numbers to any site they visited, while using O2's mobile network,"

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  1. Trusted partners? by daveewart · · Score: 5, Informative

    I see they keep banging on about "trusted" partners. Trusted by whom? That's the point which they seem to be missing... Certainly not "trusted by O2 customers".

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