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Singtel and Yellow Pages holding us hostage!

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Of late, I receive numerous nuisance calls from telemarketers and property agents on my landline. They tell me that they get my number from yellowpages. Yellow pages publishes not just our name but also address on their website, including a map! I wonder who gives them the legal right to publish confidential information of people on the internet.

I called yellow pages and I am told that I need to pay a fee of S$10 a year to have my details hidden. They cannot remove it otherwise.

They then advised me to call my operator which is Singtel to check if they could stop giving my details. Singtel is even worse – they want a one time fee of 20$ and then a quarterly fee of 5$ to stop my number from being printed.

Questions:

1. How can yellow pages publish confidential information without subscribers’ consent? Why should every person’s address be revealed on the internet?

2. Why does subscriber need to pay to get his  details removed? Why should yellow pages and operators make money from subscribers for doing something they should not be doing in the first place?

I understand that the ministry intends to come up with a do not disturb registry from 2014. But why can they not instruct yellow pages and operators from publicizing subscriber details without their consent in the first place?

NG

 


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