Long story short, born in Sweden, grew up in the UK, got married in the UK, got divorced in the UK, got retrenched in the UK, headed back to Sweden for a fresh start, started dating again 2 years later.
Had a very bitter and messy divorce with ExH after I left him due to his excessive and escalating gambling problem. Lost my job shortly after as my entire department was made redundant and decided to take a break and move back home to Sweden so I could collect myself and start again. 2 years later I started dating someone, and we moved in together just 2 months ago.
Here we have a ridiculous number of websites, not even shady ones but ones perhaps as popular as LinkedIn in that it shows up right at the top of Google when searching for someone's name, that display my full name, address, birthday, phone number, and details of whoever I'm living with.
ExH found out I'm living with DP and is sending hostile messages to both of us. This I can handle for now but it got me thinking.
I used to have an online stalker who thankfully was thwarted because back then all I used was a common username across a couple of sites. But now with LinkedIn and my professional project portfolio site it'd be even easier for someone to find out where I live, amongst other things.
AIBU to think this is a huge privacy and safety issue?