Comments on: Can a mobile website find out my phone number from me visiting? http://www.taptu.com/blog/2007/09/05/can-a-mobile-website-find-out-my-phone-number-from-me-visiting/ Taptu is a search engine for your mobile phone. Starting with music and fact-finding, we offer tons of snippets to help you find what you need quickly on your mobile. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:35:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Vero http://www.taptu.com/blog/2007/09/05/can-a-mobile-website-find-out-my-phone-number-from-me-visiting/#comment-519 Vero Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:11:22 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/2007/09/05/can-a-mobile-website-find-out-my-phone-number-from-me-visiting/#comment-519 Thanks for your comment Grant. Absolutely true that there is a way for a website to acquire your details through services like Dialogue or Bango - I should have mentioned them. At 5p a pop, it isn't financially viable for most website owners to use this kind of lookup service. They are also a fringe case and in the vast majority of cases, websites will ask users to enter their details and only contact users who have given their outright permission. As for Enna, she's here to represent the masses, the 95% of us who like mobiles but are still slightly bewildered by them. She could just as well be a 14 y/o teen or a 45 y/o businessman, but we thought the blue rinse was far more fetching than a big mustache! Thanks for your comment Grant. Absolutely true that there is a way for a website to acquire your details through services like Dialogue or Bango - I should have mentioned them.

At 5p a pop, it isn’t financially viable for most website owners to use this kind of lookup service. They are also a fringe case and in the vast majority of cases, websites will ask users to enter their details and only contact users who have given their outright permission.

As for Enna, she’s here to represent the masses, the 95% of us who like mobiles but are still slightly bewildered by them. She could just as well be a 14 y/o teen or a 45 y/o businessman, but we thought the blue rinse was far more fetching than a big mustache!

]]> By: Grant Mitchell http://www.taptu.com/blog/2007/09/05/can-a-mobile-website-find-out-my-phone-number-from-me-visiting/#comment-429 Grant Mitchell Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:46:48 +0000 http://www.taptu.com/blog/2007/09/05/can-a-mobile-website-find-out-my-phone-number-from-me-visiting/#comment-429 Vero, If this Enna was invented as a vehicle for a "satirical" post about the technical ignorance of the blue-rinse brigade then I apologise. On the other hand, if this blog entry was supposed to be honestly informative then a correction is in order: in the UK it's quite simple to get a website-visitor's phone number - it costs ~5p a lookup via an aggregator with the right privileges. Try giving Dialogue a call, for instance. Sort it out! Vero,

If this Enna was invented as a vehicle for a “satirical” post about the technical ignorance of the blue-rinse brigade then I apologise. On the other hand, if this blog entry was supposed to be honestly informative then a correction is in order: in the UK it’s quite simple to get a website-visitor’s phone number - it costs ~5p a lookup via an aggregator with the right privileges. Try giving Dialogue a call, for instance.

Sort it out!

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