I had a cold call yesterday and to be honest I could tell it was a call centre as it was an indian sounding man fishing for information and I thought I'd hang him on to waste his time. He had my name right and address but told him I had moved. (I hadnt) so I googled a post code to a local closed down Chinese restraint. He amended my address and asked me about life insurance, washing machines, my toilet, blah blah blah. So I kept him interested and wowee, I got accepted to recieve huge discounts. This went on for over 45 minutes while I 'couldn't find a pen, understand what he was saying' just basically hanging him on. Today I got a call from home shield with my new address, an English lady from Brove Brighton. She was pleasant enough and tried to sell me the insurance. I explained I had a call yesterday in relation to washing machines etc and asked how she had my information. ? Theres a list apparently. Now I'm no Columbo but me giving a false address the day before and now she had that address raised my suspicions. I asked for the name of her company. While talking I googled Home shield. I told her about the negative reviews but then she said to check out trust pilot. By then I had already told her I'm not interested and if my washer dies on me I know a man who can fix it. I used to work for Hoover's so I have many contacts. Anyway she hung up. I looked at trust pilot and in fairness it was 4.2 out of 5..what I didn't know is that if someone puts a negative review on Trust pilot it will be challenged as I'm sure they pay someone to do it. You can read about this in the google reviews. The point of my essay is, Data now is more valuable than gold, everytime you allow cookies to read a page they grab your data. Also recently I bought a fridge freezer from AO who obviously sold my data as I didn't take any insurance out with them. Be careful peeps..when buying anything from somewhere tell them that you dont want your data to be used by a 3rd party. There is a law against it.