Would you know if you were being snooped on by a private investigator?

[Collectorofcookbooks]

It's the only very paranoid explanation I can come up with as to how someone who is massively digitally inept can know the information they know about me. They've no-one else to ask and the information isn't freely out there. We're not in touch and we have no common friends.

I've no idea how easy it is to find a PI to work for you, or for them to find out information about you, including contact details.

I'm terribly boring really, they wouldn't have had much fun following me, if that is how it's been done! Just wondering what the chances are of the information having been found out this way? Someone on MN must be one!

You wouldn't know if they're any good at their job, I guess.

We once used a PI to track down a supposedly absentee freeholder. It was thought that he'd gone back to his native country so TBH we didn't expect them to find him.

Turned out that he wasn't absent at all, just 'hiding' a few miles away under another name, because of debts attached to the FH.

I suspect that some of the PI means of tracing may not be strictly legal, since when I asked how they could be sure it was him (it was), they just said, 'We have our methods.'