Phone networks

When you use your mobile phone or tablet to connect to the Internet, your Internet connection is often passed through proxy servers run by the phone network operator. These proxies may copy or modify your Internet traffic. For example, there have been incidents when phone network operators forwarded requests to websites with the user's mobile phone number attached. This allowed the servers which run the websites these users visit to know their phone number.

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2015

When you use your mobile phone or tablet to connect to the Internet, your Internet connection is often passed through proxy servers run by the phone network operator. These proxies may copy or modify your Internet traffic. For example, there have been incidents when phone network operators forwarded requests to websites with the user's mobile phone number attached. This allowed the servers which run the websites these users visit to know their phone number.