I am very careful with my personal information and can't blame anyone else who is.
While there are many provides out there who I know would never reveal any of a client's personal information, believe me there are more than a few out there who have no idea of what discretion means and more than a few guys who have been burned badly by them. All it takes is one bad experience to jade a person for ever.
There was a lady here in Winnipeg for many years who passed a couple of years ago. To put it bluntly she had a BIG MOUTH! Anyone who saw her could and would tell you she would talk about other clients all the time. And I'm not talking about some Joe Blow nobody ever heard of. I'm talking about some of Winnipeg's big movers and shakers. Lawyers, judges, pro athletes, top executives, etc. In our conversations it turned out that we actually knew people from our teenage years because her family ran a business at a popular lake my family would spend our summers at. A couple of these would see her as clients and she told me so. She ruined one client's marriage. Appaently he was a guy from Calgary who came to Winnipeg frequesntly for business. I'm not privy to what exactly happened but I heard she was under the impression he was going to leave his wife for her. It concluded with her actually going to Calgary and confronting the guy's wife with a whole bunch of information/stories about their relationship.
Then one year I am at a Chinese New Year function as a guest of a friend and she is there as well with her "date'". I'm there with my 14 year old daughter and she just strolls up to the table, tipsy as usual (she was a drunk) and starts talking to me. Asking me when we are going to get together again, etc. Very inappropriate. Of course everyone, including my daughter are asking me who that was. Lucky for me I think quickley on my feet and passed her off as a woman I took on a date a couple of years prior. Let's just say I called her up the next day and ripped her a new one.
So anyone who blames guys , and ladies for that matter for being careful with their personal information, has, fortunately for them, never had a bad experience.
Cheers
J