Comments on: Is 192.com Britain’s most invasive website?

By: yvonne

yvonne — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:07:38 +0000

Thank you 192 my daughter now has a stalker. They have told him her address, how to get there and phone number. `how can this be legal? do we as citizens have no rights? This is all so some greedy bastard can make money at other peoples misery.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:17:30 +0000

Drop by. Nice Blog.

By: Hagley Road

Hagley Road — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:48:17 +0000

Funny I stumbled upon this article. I wrote one two days ago about eerie 192 and that idiotic mobile number directory 118 800 that is about to be launched.

I must say I am surprised by the lack of controversy surrounding 192.com. After I found out about it I was seriously blown away. Especially as you read one hollow article after the other about “privacy” and then details can be accessed so easily!

Why would I want anybody to know names and surnames of those who lived with me in 2003? What purpose would that serve?
Here’s my thoughts on Hagley Road to Ladywood

http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/2009/07/privacy-and-technology-rant.html

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:13:09 +0000

That the information is available is understandable. What is exceptionally difficult to understand is the difficulty in dealing with institutions when there is a problem. No one will help you when a fraudster uses your name and address to take out a loan in your name, all of them arguing that it is your fault.

By: Papa G

Papa G — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:57:57 +0000

I’ve just checked information regarding my family members on this 192.com site.

First, I know that my wife has ticked the box regarding privacy on the electoral register, and we have an Xdir phone, and do not give our home phone number out to anyone as we have a small business and give out that number whenever asked.

In this day and age and with someone breaking into our bank accounts a few years ago, we’re very cautious now.

Yet, this information was available fully on 192.com. I don’t understand how you can be cautious, and them still publish the information unless someone hasn’t done their job well, or it has been obtained dishonestly.

So, how do we check? How does 192 verify with us that our information “should” be shared, when we specifically opt out when signing certain documents or providing our private information in forms etc.

Why is it always that “Big Brother” is always fast to grab, but not protect those that feel invaded? I think its about time “Big Brother” had to answer to all of us, and possibly a few lawsuits where fraud has occured, and places such as this were the tools used to accomplish it. Surely collusion is still a crime?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:49:46 +0000

Just checked out details on my company and the website listed against the entry for my company is a page from another directory service. It’s not my company’s website; it lists 6 companies; none of them mine.

One of the companies I work for uses a trading name that is not a limited company but on 192.com it is listed as a limited company at the wrong address.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:49:14 +0000

My mother died in 2001 and she is listed on this website!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:46 +0000

Isn’t there a responsibility under the data protection act for information like this to be accurate?

I can find plenty of examples of incorrect information

By: Rob A

Rob A — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:35:55 +0000

Thankfully the website is terrible when it comes to flats.

Apparently I live with my neighbour and not my wife. I think I should sue the site for defamation by suggesting I’m having an affair with a man.

By: JH

JH — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:31:58 +0000

Couldn’t find anything about myself, except possibly for the ‘x birth records’ and I am unwilling to pay to see. But I suppose its all part of the traces of ourselves we leave everywhere, scientists in the future would be looking not at fossils but at ancient servers because they can find out more from the information therein.