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Also, once they realized they had left the room of course they would continue to discuss the case and it is obvious they had to consider all possibilities, including the recipient releasing the information to others, hence the 180.

You're saying the natural default behavior is to assume the worst about someone and draw a conclusion in their absence, as opposed to suspending discussion briefly while trying to get the person back on the phone? That seems like a very bad-faith approach to negotiation or discussion, given that the legal liabilities are something that were so easy to identify in advance.