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Posted: 4/16/2006 1:33:30 AM EDT
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Uh, no. Not only is it a huge security/privacy concern, but mobile numbers are re-used constantly. The directory would be instantly obsolete.
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Posted: 4/16/2006 2:12:43 AM EDT
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In the United States, there is no open + centralized registry of mobile phone numbers at all. Not even on a state-by-state basis.
-I bet if you were a telemarketer you could buy it though. ~ |
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Posted: 4/16/2006 2:29:12 AM EDT
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Google the person's name, you might get lucky. Has worked for me more than once.
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Posted: 4/16/2006 10:52:33 AM EDT
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-Well, , , no. Not really. Every mobile phone company must be able to track who has what numbers, right? They could just set up a public/free web server you could get on to look. -I mean, that is, , , if they were required to by law of course. Elsewise they just do as they do now--they keep the data "secret" and sell it to marketing firms. ~ |
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Posted: 4/16/2006 12:03:29 PM EDT
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If you knew the persons name and what service they had (IE: Nextel or Cingular), a cell phone dealer who sells that same service could look it up on his computer. However, it is not legal for him to do. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 5:47:30 PM EDT
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I can't speak for every provider, only the one I work for, but all customer data, not just their phone number, is closely and securely guarded. It is also never sold to marketing agencies.. we're actually suing a company in federal court right now for calling customer care and impersonating users to get their call records, then marketing to those people. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 5:54:12 PM EDT
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We had an employee vanish (open police case after 8 years)
She had an employeer supplied and paid for cell phone They would not turn the records over to the Police until we had given them a notorized statement authorizing release of the info. Next step would have been a court order Of course my mom has called a couple of times and made payments on mine (because I used my cell phone doing work for her) without my knowdelge or consent. I guess they will bend the rules to take money. |
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Posted: 4/19/2006 1:30:28 AM EDT
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Let's see, call records and taking a payment. Guess which one is a privacy violation, and which one isn't? Here's a hint: the bank will let you deposit money into anyone else's account too, but you can't get their balance. |
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Posted: 4/19/2006 4:06:39 AM EDT
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+1 I got a weird call last year from this girls friends who I was kinda hanging out with/wanting to go out with. It was extremely weird, I called the cell phone company back and tried to get the owner of the cell phone (  ), said I was looking for a friends number and wanted to make sure it was this number, he said he couldnt do it. 
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