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Letter: Mobile discretion

Published 3 October 2012

From Jo Marvin

Feedback is puzzled about the advice to “be discreet” when using a mobile phone (25 August). This is standard on a host of advice websites from police, universities and others, and it is all to do with keeping your belongings – and you – safe from thieves.

Bromley, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2885 published 6 October 2012

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