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Removing my mobile phone number from 118800 online service

The rather quiet launch of an online directory of the nation’s mobile phone numbers triggered the predicted backlash this weekend: public outrage, the website collapsing, a PR shambles for the firms concerned and a somewhat overdue debate about opt-in. For a service with such comprehensive implications for the most personal and sensitive of contact points, there seems to have been remarkably little public discussion.

You can remove your mobile phone number from the online mobile phone directory service, here: http://www.118800.co.uk/ at the time of writing the entire website had crashed.

Your can raise your opinions with OFCOM, here: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/

July 13, 2009 |

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Neil 118800

Hi Neil from 118800.co.uk here

To clear up any confusion.

We do not sell or give data or personal details to anyone. We never ever give out any mobile numbers. We connect people who want or need to talk on the move using a system painstakingly designed to protect privacy.

In the majority of cases it will be a friend or colleague who has lost your number or doesn’t have it on them and needs to get in touch. If you are contacted it will be by 118800 announcing the name of that person, or sending a text message with the name and number of the person trying to get in touch. It will then be up to you whether you want to speak to them or not.

For more information please visit www.118800.co.uk

Thanks

Posted by: Neil 118800 | July 30, 2009 at 18:10

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