Liberty Alliance Vs The Kings Of Spam

Privacy organization sees a need for specifications in mobile messaging to protect users from potential abuses. The use of mobile based messaging services has expanded dramatically. In the UK, over two million text messages were sent in to a lottery for tickets to the Live 8 concert in London. Both SMS (Short Messaging Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) have been adopted by mobile users, and are likewise being embraced by commercial interests. Since users provide their mobile numbers as entries into contests and as part of their purchases of ringtones, games, and wallpapers, those numbers are being collected by businesses. In turn, those businesses could turn around and easily sell a list of numbers to a spammer. To help protect users from junk messaging and other abuses, the