118800 Giving out mobile numbers????

Burd

Does anyone know..

1) how much it costs to text "E" to 118800?
2) if the call placed to the 0800 number to "opt out" has to be from the mobile number in question or can be from any landline?

How many of you have found your numbers on 118800.co.uk? Out of those who did can you think of the reason for it being there - a stray ticked box for a service you signed up to?

DesG

1. normal network rate (whatever that means)
2. I called the 0800 number from a landline to have my mobile numbers removed.

There has been some discussion that their lists are way out of date and they could have your 2 year old mobile number, or last years address, so those of you who change mobile number or address frequently need not be worried. For those of us who keep the same number and don't move well, get your data removed!

I will be contacting my MP about this 'service' I am telling hiim that I will be using his name, town and mobile number in the future whenever I need these details online, then we will see how much his privacy is worth compared to mine

Cheers, Des.

DesG

Twitter site with updates on the www.118800.co.uk privacy issues: http://www.twitter.com/ripoffbritain

Cheers, Des.

iregretitall

Hi,

I heard about this on the radio on the way home from work.

www.118800.co.uk/

Everyone’s mobile number will be listed on this website from the 16th June 2009. By trying a few mates names etc I think I have narrowed it down to just contract numbers. But check and see, will be intresting to see if any pay & go are on there.

If you DO NOT want to be listed then you must text “E” to 118800. (Usual network text rate applies). They have said it takes 4 weeks to become
effective from the day you text it.

(“E” means Ex-Directory)

118800 mobile phone directory sparks privacy fears

A new mobile phone directory service from 118800 which allows people to call up the mobile numbers of strangers launches next week, but it’s already aroused the ire of privacy campaigners.

Connectivity, which owns 118800, launches the mobile phone directory service, with 16m numbers in its database, on 16 June. For £1, you’ll be able to request contact with listed folks from their name and location via the 118800 website, or for 69p over the phone. 118800 then calls the number up and asks the person if they’ll receive the call.

The mobile phone directory has been cleared by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) already, but privacy campaigners are concerned at how accessible the numbers of complete strangers will be. “The company needs to be far more specific about where it acquired the numbers on its directory,” said Simon Davies of Privacy International.

Original story can be read at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/06/10/118800-mobile-phone-directory-sparks-privacy-fears-115875-21429653/

save-a-lot

I have searched a fair few names and found nobody listed on there.. maybe after the 16th then

MarkLS12

iregretitall wrote: »

Everyone’s mobile number will be listed on this website from the 16th June 2009.

The have no plans to list mobile numbers on the web site.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Here are some to try:

Gordon Brown
Harriet Harmen

The Pope.........

Alfie_E

It really does look like the management of 118 800 didn’t foresee how many people were going to be very, very angry with them. I’ve just read Logo Design brands controversial phone service. Apparently, those blobs are speech bubbles… and I thought they were pebbles. They didn’t need to worry about differentiating themselves from other directory enquiry services. What was that you say? Mobiles? Data pimping? That’ll be 118 800! They could have got away with their name in plain, black Helvetica/Arial.

They’ll certainly be remembered long after the campaign has finished. There’s going to be enormous pressure on them to admit where they got all that data from and to explain why they think a directory service is equivalent to one or both of direct marketing or market research. The same argument could be used to justify a directory service for ex-directory land-line numbers, by claiming it’s a market research database service.

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Here are some to try:

Gordon Brown
Harriet Harmen

Chief Executive Officer, Raj Raithatha, is reported as saying, “We have a list of selected files of mobile numbers that are exempt which include Government ministers and celebrities.” This only highlights the absence of any formal regulation for this service. Celebrities don’t have to rely on some police or security service list, when it comes to ensuring their landline is ex-directory.

diamonds

Apart from the Data Protection Breach.........this way open to abuse.......

you request a number online put in anybody's number and they get billed £1 ? its a new face for premium rate scamming


Premium rate texts are regulated by phonepayplus.org.uk - which in turn cannot EVEN regulate http://www.payforituk.com/ set up by the 5 UK mobile networks...EVERY UK mobile number is on payforit's UNREGULATED system & the big 5 licensed *Accredited Payment Intermediaries* companies which many of have been FINED by ICSTIS/PP+.


Ofcom or PP+ cannot/dont regulate https://www.payfotituk.com & we are all open to fraud, follow the privacy/T&C links at the bottom of the website - BOTH NEVER HAVE EXISITED since the creation of its website ( Ironically !) on 11/6/07, two years to the date & no T&C or privacy policy....Good old Ofcom !

Otelo board members - 4 out of 6 are member companies, 3 of them are 3 of the UK's biggest telecommunications companies, 2 are independent, so in regulating anything internal about Otelo 4 votes against 2 on a board is INDEPENDENT & IMPARTIAL is it ?

CISAS - are a company of another company IDRS Ltd UK, made for profit not for complaints resolution.

!!!!!! is OFCOM all about ? because no complaints about telecoms ACTUALLY has government funding or are impartial or independent to the telecom companies.... what are we taxpayers funding Ofcom for ? considering Communications is meant to be its main avenue ?

Ofcom is as corrupt as MP's expenses.

Ofcom cant regulate nowt in telecommunications consumer interest - exactly the reason it is meant to exist !

wantmemoney

here's an example of how our the ICO, Ofcom (PhonepayPlus) allow the Industry they 'regulate' to use and abuse how personal data.

06 November 2008
Information provider IMS Limited
Service provider Zamano Limited

The PhonepayPlus Executive (“The Executive”) received over 170 consumer complainants in respect of a service which provided a facility to make phone calls or send text messages, for a 'bundled' fee of £12 per month for calls and £3 a week for texts.

The majority of complaints related to unsolicited messages sent by the information provider to numbers purchased from a third party supplier. The subscription element of the service appeared to be unclear in the promotional messages received on the complainants’ handset.

According to the service provider the service had been promoted in a variety of publications including; the News of the World, The Sun, The Daily Sport, The Metro, The Evening Standard and London Lite. The service was also promoted through SMS marketing to opted-in numbers, which had been supplied by 'DLG', a customer profiling and marketing company and also via the company website imob.tv.

and what did DLG do with the mobile phone numbers that had been used to scam mobile phone accounts?
they sold them!
and who did they sell them to?

http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/deta...icleid=7105307
RNS Number : 3381L DM Plc 08 January 2009

DM plc

("DM" or the "Group")

DLG Acquisition Update

Background

On 12 November 2008, DM, the direct marketing group specialising in customer recruitment and database management, announced the acquisition out of administration of the trade and assets of Data Locator Group Ltd and of certain associated companies ("DLG") from the administrators of DLG for a cash consideration of £3.25 million.

DLG is one of the UK's largest providers of consumer lifestyle data to the direct marketing industry with one of the country's largest consumer lifestyle databases with postal details of over 20 million individuals; 4.5 million telephone numbers; 5.8 million email addresses; and 6.2 million mobile phone numbers. The DLG database covers consumer lifestyle data, purchasing habits and consumer preferences and operates in the large and growing UK consumer data services market

who is DM

http://www.dmplc.com/pdf/Dodd_Marketing_300306.pdf
DM plc
(“DM”, “Company” or the “Group)
Proposed Acquisition of Dodd Marketing Limited

Information on Dodd Marketing
Dodd Marketing is the holding company of McIntyre, a well established, privately owned, specialist list broker and promoter of games via addressed mail. McIntyre is based in Ross-on-Wye and has 4 full time staff and 2 part time staff.

this whole thing stinks