Optus has admitted to handing over its customer’s phone numbers to certain third-party websites accessed by the user.
As first flagged by a user on telco forum Whirlpool, when a user browses certain websites, Optus provides the customer’s mobile phone number to the website operator where a “commercial relationship” exists.
KL : not cool Optus. Not cool at all. Who will take this to the Privacy Ombudsman ?
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