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Who Decides Who Doesn’t Deserve Privacy?

Remember the Ashley Madison data breach? That was now more than a decade ago, yet it arguably remains the single most noteworthy data breach of all time. There are many reasons for this accolade, but chief among them is that by virtue of the site being expressly designed to facilitate extramarital affairs, there was massive social stigma attached to it. As a result, we saw some pretty crazy stuff: Various websites were stood up to publicly disclose the presence of people in the data and out them as “cheaters” Churches trawled through the data and contacted the spouses of exposed parishioners The media outed noteworthy individuals they searched for in the breach A radio station back home in Australia encouraged listeners to dial in to check if their spouse was in the data Arguably, we now…

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Jan 13, 2026
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