Considering the amount of personal data that has been made generally available via mobile phones and some privacy concerns that have arisen over tracking services this is a pretty good idea…RedKnee is selling a service to carriers that will allow their users to decide which information to reveal to which entities. “With one setup session, the subscriber can set down rules for which applications or vendors can see specific types of information related to user identity. Those could include current location, credit card number, shipping address, phone number, buddy lists and presence…They could grant no access, one-time access or ongoing access to specific kinds of information”.
If another subscriber or application requests a piece of information about the subscriber an SMS can be sent requesting permission, and the service can also be used to block calles, “such as when a subscriber doesn’t want to get calls from co-workers on weekends”.
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