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02 showing your mobile number?

It has been reported today that users that access websites on their 02 mobile phone using 3G are actual exposing your telephone number to other websites!

This is within the HTML headers of the site, which can be used by websites to determine how to show a website (such as showing a mobile verison when the header indicates it is from a mobile device). In addition to the normal information that is shown, it would appear that 02 are also showing your mobile number.

We understand this is being looked at by o2!