I wish the UK had this. Mobile phone/data providers send a header with HTTP requests to provide the site with your phone number which they can then use to charge you without permission.
HTTPS would avoid this. Though it's actually a perverse incentive for websites that want your phone number to not provide HTTPS services.
Wow seriously? That is semi-terrifying.
Only "semi"?
Terrifying, horrifying, amazing... none of these words have any impact left after huffpo and buzzfeed have watered them down to meaninglessness. They get to join "evil" on the scrapheap of linguistic history.
Doesn't the EU have extensive privacy laws?
Kinda academic after Brexit
They haven't left yet. Brexit hasn't happened.
As far as I know that only happens with trusted partners of your mobile provider.
For some reason that makes it way worse in my book. It isn't some scumbags running a sketchy website you were tricked into clicking on - it's the very people you've entrusted to give you service.