Now I wrote about 118800 before (here) – in simple terms though, it’s a new directory company, whose directory consists of mobile numbers they bought from various sources – meaning, in simple terms, that if you are in the UK and have a mobile number, it’s quite likely you could be found (or at least your details) via this service…
… since the launch, a lot of people have apparently being removing themselves from the service – us in the UK are none too keen on privacy invasion you see – or at least the perception of it. Now the service has been suspended, due to what are issues that were apparently unforeseen at launch.
Quite what the future of the site/service might be I don’t know – but one thing is for sure – addressing peoples’ concerns about how their data (especially that which they believe they never explicitly permitted to be distributed from its original source) is used has got to be right up there on the list of priorities…
[Original story via: Mobile Today]