U R What U Txt: Mobile Phone Revelations

Tony Connock reports in a Telegraph article, “The Naked Self Revealed”, how mobile phones reveal more than many people realize. For example, his mobile phone word dictionary includes terms that he has added such as “Gucci”, “bendy”, “lovey-dovey”, “straighteners”, “fois” and “diva”, which, if perused sereptitiously, may provide a different image of him than that he might choose to portray. Another example of a person revealing more than she expected or intended is a married woman whose camera phone contained photos from her nights out without her husband, who later discovered the photos in trying to help fix a technical problem with the phone. Still more examples of [presumably] unintended revelation, many involving criminal activities, are listed at textually.org (which is where I first read about the Connock article). The innocent, of course, have nothing to fear…