If you didn't like that you could change your number and go ex-directory.
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He had also made his phone number ex-directory in the twelve months before his death.
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Despite his celebrity, he was intensely private. He designed his house in Arkley, Hertfordshire, with blank walls on the outside and the windows opening onto an internal courtyard. He hated using the telephone and kept his number ex-directory, changing it if anybody else discovered it. Given his dislike of the telephone, he communicated by post, including letters hiring and firing members of his band.
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A number offering a directory enquiries service allowing people to request to be put through to a mobile phone number was established in June 2009. 118 800 proved to be controversial, however, when it was revealed that it was making available 15 million mobile numbers that it had bought from market researchers. Its website was suspended within weeks of its launch so that the company could re-engineer the site to enable the large number of ex-directory requests to be handled more efficiently. The related 118800.co.
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In telephony, an unlisted number (United States, New Zealand), ex-directory number (United Kingdom) silent number, silent line (Australia), or private number (New Zealand, and Canada) is a telephone number that is intentionally not listed in telephone books. Silent numbers are often telephone numbers that link to specific tests or control apparatus for the telephone network maintenance staff such as ringback and automatic number announcement circuit and are generally not for public use. Such numbers are used for residential households as well, primarily for privacy and security concerns. In Norway (and some other countries) the directory services in the 1970s distinguished between secret number, unlisted number and listed number with a hidden address.
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Hurst was one of the few people who knew where they were. # Imbert, Lord; former commissioner of the Metropolitan police and a former special branch detective who investigated terrorist groups, making him a potential terrorist target. His home address and ex-directory phone number were acquired by deception from British Telecom. # Jackson, Ben; personal assistant for Jude Law # Jagger, Mick; singer # Jackson, Ben; personal assistant to Jude Law # Jefferies, Christopher; the former landlord of Joanna Yates at one time suspected in her murder and who successfully sued eight newspapers for defamation in connection with articles relating to his arrest # Johansson, Scarlett; actress, singer; pictures of herself taken by herself may have removed from her mobile phone without her consent and posted online.
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Subscriber names are generally listed in alphabetical order, together with their postal or street address and telephone number. In principle every subscriber in the geographical coverage area is listed, but subscribers may request the exclusion of their number from the directory, often for a fee; their number is then said to be "unlisted" (US and Canada), "ex-directory" (British English), "private" or private number (Australia and New Zealand). A telephone directory may also provide instructions: how to use the telephone service, how to dial a particular number, be it local or international, what numbers to access important and emergency services, utilities, hospitals, doctors, and organizations who can provide support in times of crisis. It may also have civil defense or emergency management information.
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Glenn Mulcaire later admitted hacking Macpherson's phone. # Finnigan, Judy; TV presenter # Frost, Sadie; actress and designer, ex-wife of Jude Law # Galloway, George; Respect politician # Gascoigne, Paul; footballer; # George, Eddie; Governor of the Bank of England; # Gilchrist, Andy; (2003-2003) union leader; voicemail allegedly accessed by agents of The Sun # Goody, Jade and her mother, Jackiey Budden; (August 2008) celebrity who may have been hacked in August 2008, while she was dying of cancer. # Grant, Hugh; actor and film producer # Gray, Andy; footballer and broadcaster # Giggs, Ryan footballer # Hames, Jacqui; TV presenter # Hammell, Joan; aide to the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott # Harrison, George' Beatle for whom the Mirror Group tried but apparently failed to obtain ex-directory numbers. # Haverson, Paddy; (1 November 2005 to 9 August 2006) communication secretary to Prince Charles # Henry, Lenny; actor, writer, comedian # Henry, Sheila; mother of 7/7 victim Christian Small # Henson, Gavin; rugby player # Hicks, Lady Pamela; daughter of Lord Mountbatten # Hislop, Ian; journalist, editor of Private Eye magazine whose phone records were reportedly purchased from hackers by newspaper photographer Jason Fraser.
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