Thread: 192.com people finder

hI Iv'e been on that 192.com and found myself and mrs owen on display for all the world to see.can any body advise how I can get removed or blanked out. because i do not want any tom dick or DCA to have access to this info.and how did I get on there in the first place as I'm ex directory owen

I've just checked myself out there. My phone is in her ladyship's name. She is ex-directory. We are on the private version of the electoral register.

Both our personal details are on there - including our ages, occupations etc.

I am very concerned about this too

Perhaps a DSAR is in order.

Hi,
You can have your entries removed from 192.com electoral roll entries:

If you wish to be removed from 192.com's copies of the Electoral Roll, please download the C01 form and mail it to the address below or fax it to 0207 909 2169.

Customer Services, i-CD Publishing (UK) Ltd. Units 8-10 Quayside Lodge, William Morris Way, London, SW6 2UZ.

If, after telling these leeches to remove your details, you see them still listed write to them and inform them politely you have reported them to the Information Commissioner for breach of the Data Protection Act. They won't be able to remove your detals fast enough. You will, of course, have told printed off the evidence and sent that letter to the commissioner.

I saw my details last week (Name, address and phone number)on this site even though we have opted out of the full electoral roll. I sent in the form (CO1)for being taken off and had a reply yesterday saying that they cannot remove phone numbers as the core database OSIS just updates them daily.
They say that the only way to get it taken off is through the phone provider. The thing is that my husbands name doesn't come up and the directory entry is in his name. I have never had an entry in my name so how can I have it taken off at source?
We are also on the telephone preference list yet we still get calls often asking for me by name. I wondered where on earth they could get my details from - I need wonder no more!

A word of warning here too - I had reason to buy credits recently for the full search facility.
Lo and behold today I received an email purporting to be from 192.com saying my credits have been used and offering a discount on futher credits. Presumably spam/phishing as I still have 4 credits left, and when I hovered the pointer over the link provided the address that showed up in the bar at the bottom was definitely NOT 192.com. I forwarded it to their abuse department, BUT how on earth did they know I'd recently got credits??

Originally Posted by DaisyMay

I saw my details last week (Name, address and phone number)on this site even though we have opted out of the full electoral roll. I sent in the form (CO1)for being taken off and had a reply yesterday saying that they cannot remove phone numbers as the core database OSIS just updates them daily.
They say that the only way to get it taken off is through the phone provider. The thing is that my husbands name doesn't come up and the directory entry is in his name. I have never had an entry in my name so how can I have it taken off at source?
We are also on the telephone preference list yet we still get calls often asking for me by name. I wondered where on earth they could get my details from - I need wonder no more!

Technical difficulties and how they resolve their breaches of the DPA are not your concern. I would send them the stop processing section 10 notice in the templates.

It is more likely they cannot remove phone numbers because they make a nice wedge selling them

so after reading your comments, and many of you say you are already ex directory and have also opted out on the electoral roll how have these lowlifes got our details.... it looks to me as though our local councils are selling this info on despite our opting out.would a letter to our local mp help. (bet they dont know it but their details are probably listed) owen

The letter I got yesterday saying they could not remove my details also included a printout from the BT site showing all my details so they had done a search themselves and come up with my name, number and address so I went onto the BT site and asked to be removed. I have just had an email back from them asking me to confirm my phone number and BT account number so they can deal with it. The fact is that we haven't been with BT for about 15 years as we are with Virgin, and the phone book number has always been in my husband's name.
I will send them the stop processing letter tomorrow.

Originally Posted by owen everybody

so after reading your comments, and many of you say you are already ex directory and have also opted out on the electoral roll how have these lowlifes got our details.... it looks to me as though our local councils are selling this info on despite our opting out.would a letter to our local mp help. (bet they dont know it but their details are probably listed) owen

clearly they get the same 'non public' versions as the cra's do. The public electoral role can be seen at any library FOC. The argument is no doubt that you have to pay to see it. The fact that any tom dick or harriet can do that seems by the by.

My view? 192 is a largely 'gray' area that at best has gone under the rader because, lets face it, how often do most people pay to check where they live or what their phone number is? I believe that, from what you've all said, eveything on their DB is in total breach of the DPA. How many of us have 'ticked a box' then signed to say they agree to 192.com processing their data?

Time for a raft of letters me thinks. Mine will be off Tuesday at the latest.

Even the bottom feeders need food, now we know who feeds their 'sophisticated' tracing algorithms.

excelent idea hungry, who are we sending letters to? 192 or MP

I am sorry to read that there seems to be some confusion over the data we hold on www.192.com. The site is used by millions of people to find friends and relatives, check addresses and to obtain telephone numbers, where available. We take privacy very seriously and publish data in accordance with all the ICO and Data Protection guidelines.

The data we publish is already publicly available from a variety of sources however, we have always provided an Electoral Roll record removal form (since 1997) which anyone can download and fax or post back to us. Please complete the following form and return it to us: http://statics.192.com/downloads/C01.pdf Once returned we aim to remove Electoral Roll records within 48hrs.

Telephone numbers are sourced from the OSIS database. This is the database where all telecom providers have to list their numbers and we receive a daily update directly from the source (we do not display ex directory numbers). If you wish to be ex directory or to check your current listing please contact your telecoms provider.

If you find your name and occupation on 192.com, you are most likely looking at a Directors record. This is sourced from Companies House and is provided if you are a Director or Company Secretary. With any enquiry regarding Director/Secretary details you need to contact Companies House.

As the Customer Services Manager at 192.com if anyone on this forum has any specific concerns please do contact me (Zoe) via feedback@192.com and I will deal with your questions personally.

Hi,

The information we display on www.192.com will have been provided from either the Electoral Roll (local councils), OSIS database(telecoms companies), Company or Director information(Companies House). If you wish to know what we have pertaining to yourself. Please send us an email requesting a Data Subject Request and we will contact you further as we will need to get further information from you to ensure we pass onto you all the relevant data.

We do keep search logs, if you feel that your details may have been searched please again get in touch and we will be able to assist you/police wherever we can.

yeah BUT........please answer the question for all us caggers

What do you do to prevent my data being sold or exposed to the wrong sort of people?

Report them to:
Mr. Christopher Graham;
ICO