haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk

rory.cellan-jones@bbc.co.uk

Hello,

I have just read your BBC article dated 9 February 2017 about privacy concerns for people who are using Nextdoor.

There are bigger issues to be exposed here.

I signed up for this site.

I asked for a postcard to be sent to me, which contained a code that enabled me to complete the registration process.

This took about 5 days to arrive, during which time my email was mysteriously mal-functioning and unusable for a couple of days.

Upon completing the process, I was granted access. But I was shocked and amazed at what I was first presented with.

There was a list of email addresses.

This was composed of my address lists of both this hotmail account and from another that I access from the same computer.

The accompanying message was: "Would you like us to send messages to all these addresses?"

These lists are normally, obviously, private and only accessible to me.

They could only have got these by dropping clever trojan/spyware onto my computer. There is no other way.

I have now done a thorough security sweep of my computer which revealed trojans and viruses, which I have now cleaned off.

I have now changed my anti-virus package.

Unfortunately I do not have sufficient skill or knowledge to analyse this further.

Is what they are doing legal?

Do you have any comments?

Philip Bowman