Using Opera Mini seems to disable this "feature". Of course, doing so means all of my web traffic goes via Oslo. And of course, any apps using an http API are presumably affected too. I'm rather disappointed to hear about this.
UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
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Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#32Well, their twitter guy just woke up: https://twitter.com/#!/o2
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect any legal case would hinge on whether your mobile phone number counted as personal data or not. Again, IANAL, but the Data Protection Act is not specific on what counts as personal data and instead leaves it up to case law and I think the data registrar(?) to clarify.
Information Commissioner, or at least his office. However, I think it is generally percieved as personal.
On the other hand, in some contexts we hand our numbers out freely :-) I may be being pessimistic, but I suspect lawyers would have expensive "fun" with the details of this one.
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#34Orange UK here - nothing in my headers. Clean as a whistle.
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#35I'm on Giffgaff, which is a daughter company of O2, same problem. Started a support thread on the website, let's see what they say.
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#36This does not happen on giffgaff, a MVNO owned by and operating on O2s network.
Actually it does for me. Perhaps its the handset that determines this issue? I have a O2 PAYG HTC HD7 WP7.5 device that I use with GiffGaff and the page clearly lists the header and my phone number.
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#37Well, their twitter guy just woke up: https://twitter.com/#!/o2
9.21am in the UK, the office just opened.
This will be a fun day for the poor workers on level-1 support :-)
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#38I'm not seeing the header - HTC Desire.
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#39Firstly I don't work for O2 but I work in the mobile industry. O2 should only be passing your number to trusted sites (and to get on that list is pretty hard).
We have reported it to them via various internal contacts we have. Hopefully they will fix this soon!
Re: UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
#40I got the header inserted on my iPhone 3Gs, not happy about this.