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Privacy concerns over Yes campaign vote’s bulk SMS

The  bulk SMS  sent in favour of same-sex marriage has sparked calls for changes to privacy regulations, after hundreds of thousands of Australians were bom­barded with text messages with­out their permission. Coalition MPs who support traditional marriage yesterday questioned whether the Yes campaign had complied with political authorisation requirements and complained that messages had been sent to minors without parents’ consent. The tactic also triggered calls to reform the rules governing mass communication with experts suggesting the messages could have cost as little as 2c each, with the Yes camp unable to confirm how many were actually sent. Federal minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells told  The Australian  the decision to send mass text messages would “not have been a cheap exercise” and that it “just goes to show how cashed up the Yes campaign is”. “There is a legitimate question about the authorisation,” she said. “In terms of sending it to minors...

Check Out Who Is Sending This LM-XXXX And DM-XXXX Kinds Of Messages To Your Mobile Number

There are times when our mobile phones get flooded with the random messages from the usernames with prefixes like DM, LM, BT, AA and etc. Some look legit, while others-fake. However, one must understand that there’s a theory behind this  bulk messages , they are certain meanings according to their prefixes, which actually are gateways, the break down of the prefixes has a certain meaning which we will acknowledge below. ow, coming to context, if you have a Mobile number in India and more particularly if you have registered for mobile banking you must be receiving SMS Messages from Short codes like TD-KVBANK, BX-CANBAN, LM-AxisBk, DM-HDFCBK, LM-UnionB, well, it is clear with the suffixes, they’re from Banks, but, how about the prefixes? Or else, if your messages are from LM-HATHWAY, TD-Google, MM-FACEBK. It is once again clear that they are from the Service Providers, Social Networking sites, Companies, and many other recognized organizations. But all again, what the heck...