27 August 2015, The Tablet

Caught in the net

by Melanie McDonagh

 
As millions of the would-be adulterers exposed in a hack attack on an online site for the unfaithful contemplate their own personal dies irae, one lesson is there for all: there is no such thing as privacy on the internet, no matter how much you pay for it Every so often in my journalistic capacity I get sent an email from an online adultery site – I get any number of communications from the oddest people – called Victoria Milan, letting me know the habits of its clients, apart, obviously, from having sexual relations with people they are not married to. So I learn that adulterers tend to like Gameof Thrones and jazz music and summer affairs. But the common adjective in all these communications is “discreet”. Victoria Milan is, I am assured, “Europe’s
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