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Any search you make is public - scroll down the main page and you will see the names people have searched for.
Hmm, they missed that bit out of their FAQ's where they say:

Q. Can I see who has searched for me on your website?
No, all searches performed are confidential.


Must be some hitherto unknown meaning of the word "confidential".
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Old 16-10-14, 17:16
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Hmmm - Caja Data Espana Ltd registered as a company in August. The address where they are registered has more than 30,000 companies registered there.
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We'd better all search quickly then, before the site is taken down!
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Old 17-10-14, 13:32
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Hmm, they missed that bit out of their FAQ's where they say:

Q. Can I see who has searched for me on your website?
No, all searches performed are confidential.


Must be some hitherto unknown meaning of the word "confidential".
Hello,

To confirm,

No, all searches performed are confidential.

Our search history only provides details of the search that was undertaken.
It does not include any information about who has conducted the search.

The search history is crawled by search engines which then provide links in their search results to a cached record of the original search.
If you are listed in a search engine result then this will be due to a search conducted by someone that resulted in your name being included.
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We'd better all search quickly then, before the site is taken down!
Although the company is new we have been busy processing data for many, many years so have no fear we are going nowhere
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Old 17-10-14, 13:36
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I've just seen this site on another forum and it appears to give free searches of the UK electoral roll between 1980 & 2014.
http://www.freeelectoralroll.co.uk/

I am listed on there, even though our details should not be listed on the edited electoral roll. My mother-in-law is also listed at my address, even though she only lived with us between 2008 & 2011, long after the edited register came into being.
We are not listed on the electoral roll which is available on FMP.
To be clear.

We process data from a variety of compliant data sources not only the Open electoral roll, On top of the electoral roll we have built into their people finding databases other data sets to provide current year coverage in excess of 44 million records for a UK nationwide people search. Every day there are thousands of new records being added. The FMP roll is supplied by 192 and is only the Open register without any consented data.
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Old 17-10-14, 13:37
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We'd better all search quickly then, before the site is taken down!
Willing to take a bet on this one.
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Old 17-10-14, 13:40
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Hello,

To confirm,

No, all searches performed are confidential.

Our search history only provides details of the search that was undertaken.
It does not include any information about who has conducted the search.


Thanks for the clarification. But I still don't think that a search can be described as "confidential" when details are posted on your site. I realise it doesn't say who was doing the searching, but it is still not what I understood "confidential" to mean when I read the FAQ's before doing my searches.
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Hello,

To confirm,

No, all searches performed are confidential.

Our search history only provides details of the search that was undertaken.
It does not include any information about who has conducted the search.

The search history is crawled by search engines which then provide links in their search results to a cached record of the original search.
If you are listed in a search engine result then this will be due to a search conducted by someone that resulted in your name being included.
That is not confidential. If I am searching for someone, I do not want the subject of my search to be public. The reason for searching for a name may be highly sensitive, for example, adoption. Equally, if my name appears in the list of names being searched, I would find that a breach of privacy.
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Old 17-10-14, 13:45
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They say the following in their FAQ's:


Q. I did a Google search and I found myself listed within your search results and I would like to remove myself from your databases?


Simply go to the record removal page and follow the guidance notes.


So you should be able to get your details removed that way.

I'm still trying to figure out why and how they would have details of people who have opted out of the "open register", though.

This is a long held fallacy.

Even if a data subject is opted out of open registers, it does not mean it is unlawful to process the record under any circumstance!.It would be rightly unlawful to process the record if it had been obtained via the full register. If the same record has been obtained by a compliant source it makes no difference whether the data subject has opted out or not, the record is now consented and lawfully processed.

In exactly the same way for an ex directory telephone number or indeed a TPS number, if the number is detailed within a consented database then the caveat no longer applies and can and will be processed lawfully and compliantly.
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