There was a interview with one of the company representatives on BBC Radio 2 on the Chris Evans show yesterday. During the interview, she mentioned that they do not give out the mobile number to the requestor.
They connect the requestor to a matched number - on your mobile the caller ID should read 118 800. On answering the company will then ask you if wish to speak to the person and make the connection. It is then up to you to give out your number during the call.
Presumably this is how they are just about staying onside.
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Subject: [data-protection] Mobile Phone directory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/8091621.stm
A company will begin offering a directory service from next week that allows people to find the mobile phone numbers of people they don't know.
Run by 118800, it will cost £1 and use databases of numbers it said are freely available for purchase and in the public domain. Anyone searching for a number can type the name and location of the person into the 118800 website. It claims to have some 15m numbers in its database.
I read in the Times that the company claims it has consulted the ICO and Privacy International were also asked for advice.
Regards
Ibrahim Hasan
Director
Act Now Training Limited
www.actnow.org.uk
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