Mobile phone users 'signing away privacy rights'


	Mobile phone users 'signing away privacy rights'
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5097389/Mobile-phone-users-signing-away-privacy-rights.html"><H2>Millions of <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA c43071e2c4a1aff2f5a267e6cbf74299 MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="mobile phone" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-recent-headlines mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Recent Headlines, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">mobile phone</MASHLOGIC> users are inadvertently passing up their rights to privacy by upgrading to the latest handsets, campaigners have warned. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5097389/Mobile-phone-users-signing-away-privacy-rights.html"><P>With their plethora of modern applications, the latest models disclose the user's location with a few yards, their <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="internet shopping" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">internet shopping</MASHLOGIC> habits, friends and interests.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5097389/Mobile-phone-users-signing-away-privacy-rights.html"><P>While phone providers are not supposed to pass on such data without permission, many people give consent for the information to be sold to marketing companies by not reading the <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="terms and conditions" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">terms and conditions</MASHLOGIC> of their contracts, it is claimed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5097389/Mobile-phone-users-signing-away-privacy-rights.html"><P>Human right campaigners have warned that such details give companies an unprecedented insight into people's lives.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/5097389/Mobile-phone-users-signing-away-privacy-rights.html"><P>Concerns have also been raised that this could lead to further <MASHLOGIC mashbutton="qAmfVSP6OWDmUwSYjxPLFA c43071e2c4a1aff2f5a267e6cbf74299 MmJ8DH6q_mf2UTUQnFmupw Q_t6tYmm9Hg4I5P5ye4Tyg" li-term="invasion of privacy" class="mashlogic mashlink-wikipedia mashlink-recent-headlines mashlink-documents-by-docstoc mashlink-documents-by-scribd" title="MashLogic: Wikipedia, Recent Headlines, Documents by Docstoc, Documents by Scribd">invasion of privacy</MASHLOGIC>, should governments begin demanding access to the data in the future.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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