BBC – Newsbeat – Warning over scam that charges users to receive texts.
This article is full of great advice for anyone with a mobile phone – I am going to discuss this with my teenage son tonight.
On the subject of sharing personal information Cory Doctorow has a thought-provoking article in the Guardian that is worth reading.
Cory Doctorow’s >> Blog Archive » Censorship is surveillance, and privacy is a public health problem.
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