Reverse Phone lookup is a telephone directory that let users retrieve the details of a customer by using a telephone service number. They are also associated with the name reverse telephone directory. Like so many others there are good people and bad people and obviously some of them love to exploit the computer system. . Many countries use directories as they help provide them with details of customers in times of emergencies and of course data loss. Most of these directories are created by individuals and they are mostly associated with the name Phone Phreakers. Phreaking has been closely been associated with computer hacking because in the modern world and with different inventions and innovations telephone networks have all been computerized. Phreaking is the way of life of people who learn experiment, access, analyze and also explore the telecommunication system and its associated equipments that have connections with the public telephone networks.
reverse phone lookup is mostly used by other emergency services and law enforcement agencies. They include both public accessible and private services It must be noted that the directories used by these agencies are restricted for internal use only since some information are very confidential and cannot be disclosed to the masses. In the United Kingdom, reverse directory information is not available publicly. Consequently, it is provided as a hardcopy in the Channel Islands (located between the south coast of the United Kingdom and the north of France) it has a population of 163,857 as of 2012. They are also used by public libraries as well and it helps so many people and individual collect phone numbers and links them with various customer details. As it currently stands there is no law that serves as a basis to ensure that a particular number is delisted in the directory currently available. For other agencies it is treated as Communication data in the (RIPA) regime, thus ensuring that peoples personal electronic information are not assessed by the public.