Strictly Private? ; Thanks to the Internet, Your Blind Date Can Find Out Your Most Intimate Secrets Before You've Even Met.Worried? You Should Be, Says Claire Coleman

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PICTURE the scene: you are on a first date with someone you've never met before. You've been introduced by a friend of a friend of a friend, and exchanged a couple of emails and spoken on the phone.

A few drinks into the evening and your date reveals that not only does he know your home address and phone number, but also when you bought your house and how much you paid for it.

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Strictly Private? ; Thanks to the Internet, Your Blind Date Can Find Out Your Most Intimate Secrets Before You've Even Met.Worried? You Should Be, Says Claire Coleman

He's also seen pictures of your father and has the details of where he works, his email address and office phone number.

I imagine you'd be more than a little taken aback, particularly when he admits all of this information isn't the result of friends briefing him, or a dossier from a private investigator, but down to a few minutes' wo...

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