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Data security a foreign concept

You'd think that just about the worst thing that could happen in today's charged smartphone-internet intersection is the theft of many thousands of the most important identification documents and personal details of mobile phone owners. But you'd be wrong.

The revelation that 11,400 TrueMove H customers lost scanned copies of ID cards and/or passports and residency (tabien ban) papers was actually destined to happen.

The loss of privacy by those smartphone customers went much deeper. The True Move subsidiary of the international Chicken People (CP aka Charoen Pokphand) conglomerate also handed over their customers' even more precious privacy -- details of their fingerprints and eyes. You know, those handy personal ID traits that supposedly are far better than passwords for security.

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