UK Mobile Phone Users Highly Vulnerable To ID Theft

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The proliferation of more advanced smartphones and the fact that British employees tend to work much longer than the rest of Europe mean that ID theft is probably more likely to happen here than any anywhere else in Europe. Devices like the iPhone and the Blackberry now have multi-gigabyte capacities and can easily be stolen or lost. 

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