There are two main ways to access names and addresses in the UK, the electoral register, and the open register. The electoral register is the one that has more

There are two main ways to access names and addresses in the UK, the electoral register, and the open register. The electoral register is the one that has more limited access and uses [0] while the open register is readily available for many other purposes such as direct marketing. You can opt-out of the open register, so it would be interesting to know if in this case the person in question had opted out, or not. Edit: a quick search on the open register for Wolverhampton reveals Sahil's full address from the 2009 and 2011 electoral rolls. Which means you could have used 192.com [1] or whitepages.com [2] to find him and thus very unlikely he had opted out, as those sites use open (edited) register data. [0]: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/electoral-register/ https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/electoral-register/ [1]: http://www.192.com/ http://www.192.com/ [2]: http://www.whitepages.co.uk/electoral-roll-search-and-electoral-register-voters.html http://www.whitepages.co.uk/electoral-roll-search-and-electo... DISCLAIMER: I work for one of the major credit bureaus but views are my own, and my understanding of the regulations around access to this kind of data is very shallow.