Now Im ANNOYED!!

Darnit_2

Mine is uncommon there is only me. But I still don't come up. My OH has a couple of others in the world, but he doesn't come up either???

jellygirl_2

Darnit wrote: »

Mine is uncommon there is only me. But I still don't come up. My OH has a couple of others in the world, but he doesn't come up either???

How strange - perhaps you escaped the eternal dungeon that is the London Gazette.

I dont even live in bloody London!! They're a flippin newspaper for goodness sake, not the High Bloody Court!! Sorry, I'm just venting...:o

xocbc

confused76 wrote: »

mine comes up, but a few pages down. i think it is seriously dodgy with addresses and everything. our personal info could be used for anything. what about the data protection act surely?

What about the data protection act?

I'm in the gazette too, and google brings my name up. I don't like it, only on the basis that people who don't know I went BR could find out if they googled my name.

But reality check. Names and addresses aren't exactly private, most of them are in the phone book, electoral register, on every bit of post you get, someone could follow you home to get your address, loads of organisations have it on mailing lists that get sold around.

Given that we are BR, we can't get credit anyway so ID theft is a non-starter really, I don't think its anything to get upset about personally.

I'd rather have my name on google than be scared to answer the door/phone in case it is the bailiffs, debt collectors, people coming to cut off the gas etc!

wayforward_2

I just googled my name and luckily there is quite a prolific reporter in the US with the same name as me so all that came up were pictures of her! There are loads of images too and she is looks like a 70 year old man in drag! I'm more peeved the people could think that was me!

nervousmother

Mine is the 4th one down, but my first name is unusual. It not even the gazette listing though? its the BR pdf that was put in the local paper by the OR.
previous address, occupation and current address.. nothing to do with identity theft to do with people who know me google me then finding out i was once BR..

debtinfo

sorry but it goes with the territory, it is public information and it is not against the DPA

onward

In a rather unpleasant way, I don't seem to come up on the first 10 pages of searching the UK version of google. The reason is that a few years back someone with the same name as me (not a particularly common one) was murdered, so that tends to dominate the search listsings.

Mind you, when I looked on the IS website for my listing, my address was not shown, and my job title was shown as 'Personal Services' which sounds rather more dodgy than my actual job title (which, I should add, is nothing of the sort)

Doucam

I checked and don't come up on the first 6 or so pages, there seems to be some nurses and dr's in the US with the same name who have lots of papers published.

I even tried putting in our surname, 1st part of the road and the town and still nothing, but we are in the gazette.

fatou256

my name doesn't come up at all ! i must be lucky lol ...

sfjnet

xocbc wrote: »

Given that we are BR, we can't get credit anyway so ID theft is a non-starter really, I don't think its anything to get upset about personally.

This is very true - woe betide the idiot criminal that tries identity theft by taking details of bankrupt people from the LG