Your friends pay you money to permanently dispose of the evidence of their marital affair
You just leave the evidence at your house instead
You leave your doors and windows open
Now its still not your fault that people came in and rummaged through your stuff; but surely its you who are to blame for never disposing of the evidence as you promised (and accepted payment for)?
Its an interesting component to what is otherwise extremely simple.
If i paid a document shredding company to shred my documents and months later that company gets broken into and all my documents are released...
Surely i blame the shredding company as much, if not more, than i blame the thieves.
I don't really have a position or idea on what this all makes ashley madison guilty of from a criminal or civil law perspective - but i certainly feel that there are punishable actions taken by ashley madison in this whole mess
Your addition to the analogy doesn't really change anything, unless I made an absolute guarantee to either 1) immediately destroy the information or 2) destroy said information within a given timeframe and failed to do so.
Both of those are separate issues from leaving the information laying about.
In the original case, I might be stupid, but the interlopers are wrong to assume that they had an invitation to stuff laying about. They are, in fact, burglars.
Even with your addition, they are still burglars. However, I am liable for either 1) failing to destroy said information/stuff and/or 2) failing to do so within the specified timeframe, if the burglary happened after that timeframe.
The blame to the burglars remains the same in either case.
Honestly, I'm sort of enjoying a fat cuppa shadenfreude tempered by the knowledge that it is, for the most part, really none of my damn business what someone else does with their naughty bits.
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Interesting analogy, what about this:
Your friends pay you money to permanently dispose of the evidence of their marital affair
You just leave the evidence at your house instead
You leave your doors and windows open
Now its still not your fault that people came in and rummaged through your stuff; but surely its you who are to blame for never disposing of the evidence as you promised (and accepted payment for)?
Its an interesting component to what is otherwise extremely simple.
If i paid a document shredding company to shred my documents and months later that company gets broken into and all my documents are released...
Surely i blame the shredding company as much, if not more, than i blame the thieves.
I don't really have a position or idea on what this all makes ashley madison guilty of from a criminal or civil law perspective - but i certainly feel that there are punishable actions taken by ashley madison in this whole mess
Your addition to the analogy doesn't really change anything, unless I made an absolute guarantee to either 1) immediately destroy the information or 2) destroy said information within a given timeframe and failed to do so.
Both of those are separate issues from leaving the information laying about.
In the original case, I might be stupid, but the interlopers are wrong to assume that they had an invitation to stuff laying about. They are, in fact, burglars.
Even with your addition, they are still burglars. However, I am liable for either 1) failing to destroy said information/stuff and/or 2) failing to do so within the specified timeframe, if the burglary happened after that timeframe.
The blame to the burglars remains the same in either case.
Honestly, I'm sort of enjoying a fat cuppa shadenfreude tempered by the knowledge that it is, for the most part, really none of my damn business what someone else does with their naughty bits.